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say it: wayd
wade is a noun and verb meaning "English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)". It is pronounced /ˈweɪd/ — wayd. It carries 2 recorded senses.
English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
walk (through relatively shallow water)
“Can we wade across the river to the other side?”
“Wade the pond”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wade come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.