Standard Lemma guide

hat

noun · verb · 21 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Australian, US: /hæt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • California, Canada, Received-Pronunciation: /hat/
  • Received-Pronunciation: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Northwestern, US: /hæ̞ʔ/
  • New-Zealand, Northern-US: /hɛt/
  • rhymes with -æt
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AE1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, clothing, fashion, lifestyle, manufacturing, textiles

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.

The lottery or draw itself.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: broadly, figuratively

Examples

  • We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A hat switch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: video-games

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The circumflex symbol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: mathematics, media, publishing, sciences, typography

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The háček symbol.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: nonstandard, rare

Topics: media, publishing, typography

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The caret symbol ^.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Qualifier: Cambridge University slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Initialism of highest astronomical tide.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Initialism of human African trypanosomiasis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable

Topics: medicine, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

Initialism of hardware attached on top: a kind of expansion board for the Raspberry Pi computer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To place a hat on.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

verb

Meaning 15

To appoint as cardinal.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To shop for hats.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

simple past of hit

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, form-of, obsolete, past

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

noun

Meaning 18

an informal term for a person's role

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: function, office, part, role

19

noun

Meaning 19

headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chapeau, lid

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: headdress, headgear

Narrower terms: bearskin, busby, shako, boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat, bonnet, poke bonnet, bowler hat, bowler, derby hat, derby, plug hat, campaign hat, cavalier hat, slouch hat, cocked hat, cowboy hat, ten-gallon hat, deerstalker, dress hat, high hat, opera hat, silk hat, stovepipe, top hat, topper, beaver, dunce cap, dunce's cap, fool's cap, fedora, felt hat, homburg, Stetson, trilby, fur hat, millinery, woman's hat, shovel hat, snap-brim hat, sombrero, sou'wester, sunhat, sun hat, titfer, toque, tyrolean, tirolean

20

verb

Meaning 20

put on or wear a hat

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • He was unsuitably hatted

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: wear, put on, get into, don, assume

Narrower terms: bonnet

21

verb

Meaning 21

furnish with a hat

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: supply, provide, render, furnish

History

Etymology

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), perhaps from a late PIE root Proto-Indo-European *kedh- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”) or wanderwort. Cognate with North Frisian and Danish hat (“hat”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

Across languages

Translations

299 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: hoed — a head covering
  • Akan: ɛkyɛw — a head covering
  • Akan: kyɛw — a head covering
  • Albanian: kapelë — a head covering
  • Southern Altai: шляпа (šlyapa) — a head covering
  • Southern Altai: бӧрӱк (börük) — a head covering
  • Alutiiq: slaapaq — a head covering
  • Amharic: ቆብ (ḳob) — a head covering
  • Western Apache: chʼah — a head covering
  • Arabic: قُبَّعَة (qubbaʕa) — a head covering
  • Arabic: بُرْنَيْطَة (burnayṭa) — a head covering
  • Arabic: بِرْنِيطَة (birnīṭa) — a head covering
  • Arabic: قُبَّعة (gubbaʕa , qubbaʕa) — a head covering
  • Arabic: طاقيّة (ṭāʔiyye) — a head covering
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܟܘܼܣܝܼܬܵܐ (kusita) — a head covering
  • Armenian: գլխարկ (glxark) — a head covering
  • Aromanian: capelã — a head covering
  • Aromanian: cãciulã — a head covering
  • Assamese: টুপী (tupi) — a head covering
  • Asturian: gorru — a head covering
  • Avar: тӏагъур (tʼağur) — a head covering
  • Azerbaijani: papaq — a head covering
  • Azerbaijani: şlyapa — a head covering
  • Azerbaijani: başlıq — a head covering
  • Azerbaijani: şapka — a head covering
  • Azerbaijani: qalpaq — a head covering
  • Bashkir: эшләпә (eşləpə) — a head covering
  • Basque: kapela — a head covering
  • Belarusian: капялю́ш (kapjaljúš) — a head covering
  • Belarusian: ша́пка (šápka) — a head covering
  • Bengali: টুপি (ṭupi) — a head covering
  • Bulgarian: ша́пка (šápka) — a head covering
  • Burmese: ဦးထုပ် (u:htup) — a head covering
  • Carpathian Rusyn: колоп (kolop) — a head covering
  • Catalan: barret — a head covering
  • Catalan: capell — a head covering
  • Cebuano: kalo — a head covering
  • Chamicuro: sompelelo — a head covering
  • Chechen: куй (kuj) — a head covering
  • Chechen: куоьртахтуьлум (kwörtaxtülum) — a head covering
  • Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏍᏇᏔᏬᎩ (alisquetawogi) — a head covering
  • Chickasaw: yaalhipa — a head covering
  • Chinese Cantonese: 帽 — a head covering
  • Chinese: мозы (mozɨ) — a head covering
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 帽 (mô̤) — a head covering
  • Gan Chinese: 帽子 (mau5 zi) — a head covering
  • Hakka Chinese: 帽仔 (mo-é) — a head covering
  • Chinese: 帽仔 (bō-á) — a head covering
  • Jin Chinese: 帽子 (mau3 zeh) — a head covering
  • Chinese Mandarin: 帽子 (màozi) — a head covering
  • Northern Min Chinese: 帽 (māu) — a head covering
  • Wu Chinese: 帽子 — a head covering
  • Chinook Jargon: siyapuɬ — a head covering
  • Chinook Jargon: seahpo — a head covering
  • Chuvash: шлепке (šlepke) — a head covering
  • Ngazidja Comorian: gora — a head covering
  • Cornish: hatt — a head covering
  • Czech: klobouk — a head covering
  • Danish: hat — a head covering
  • Dhivehi: ތޮފި (tofi) — a head covering
  • Dutch: hoed — a head covering
  • Dzongkha: ཞྭམོ། (zhwamo) — a head covering
  • Elfdalian: att — a head covering
  • Erzya: вазь (vaź) — a head covering
  • Esperanto: ĉapelo — a head covering
  • Estonian: müts — a head covering
  • Evenki: авун (awun) — a head covering
  • Farefare: zuvõka class 3/4 — a head covering
  • Faroese: hattur — a head covering
  • Finnish: hattu — a head covering
  • Franco-Provençal: chapél — a head covering
  • French: chapeau — a head covering
  • French: couvre-chef — a head covering
  • North Frisian: hödj — a head covering
  • North Frisian: hud — a head covering
  • West-Frisian: hoed — a head covering
  • Friulian: cjapiel — a head covering
  • Galician: chapeu — a head covering
  • Galician: sombreiro — a head covering
  • Galician: pucho — a head covering
  • Galician: rodopergo — a head covering
  • Galician: galero — a head covering
  • Galician: chambergo — a head covering
  • Gallo: chapai — a head covering
  • Georgian: ქუდი (kudi) — a head covering
  • German: Kopfbedeckung — a head covering
  • German: Kappe — a head covering
  • German: Hut — a head covering
  • German: Mütze — a head covering
  • German: Huet — a head covering
  • Greek: καπέλο (kapélo) — a head covering
  • Greek: πίλος (pílos) — a head covering
  • Ancient Greek: πῖλος (pîlos) — a head covering
  • Ancient Greek: πέτασος (pétasos) — a head covering
  • Greenlandic: nasaq — a head covering
  • Greenlandic: qaannguusaq — a head covering
  • Mbya Guarani: xapeo — a head covering
  • Gujarati: ટોપી (ṭopī) — a head covering
  • Haitian Creole: chapo — a head covering
  • Hawaiian: pāpale — a head covering
  • Hebrew: כּוֹבַע (kóva) — a head covering
  • Higaonon: kalo — a head covering
  • Hindi: टोपी (ṭopī) — a head covering
  • Hindi: टोप (ṭop) — a head covering
  • White Hmong: mom — a head covering
  • Hungarian: kalap — a head covering
  • Hungarian: sapka — a head covering
  • Hungarian: fejfedő — a head covering
  • Icelandic: hattur — a head covering
  • Icelandic: höfuðfat — a head covering
  • Ido: chapelo — a head covering
  • Indonesian: topi — a head covering
  • Ingrian: šlääppi — a head covering
  • Ingrian: hattu — a head covering
  • Irish: hata — a head covering
  • Italian: cappello — a head covering
  • Japanese: 帽子 (bōshi) — a head covering
  • Kabuverdianu: txapéu — a head covering
  • Kannada: ಟೋಪಿ (ṭōpi) — a head covering
  • Kashmiri: ٹوٗپؠ (ṭūp') — a head covering
  • Kazakh: бас киім (bas kiım) — a head covering
  • Kazakh: бөрік (börık) — a head covering
  • Kazakh: қалпақ (qalpaq) — a head covering
  • Khmer: មួក (muək) — a head covering
  • Korean: 모자 (moja) — a head covering
  • Central Kurdish: کِڵاو (killaw) — a head covering
  • Laki: کِڵاو (killaw) — a head covering
  • Northern Kurdish: kûm — a head covering
  • Northern Kurdish: kulik — a head covering
  • Northern Kurdish: kulav — a head covering
  • Southern Kurdish: کِڵاو (killaw) — a head covering
  • Kyrgyz: шляпа (şlyapa) — a head covering
  • Kyrgyz: калпак (kalpak) — a head covering
  • Kyrgyz: шапке (şapke) — a head covering
  • Kyrgyz: баш кийим (baş kiyim) — a head covering
  • Kyrgyz: бөрк (börk) — a head covering
  • Ladino: chapeo — a head covering
  • Ladino: sombrero — a head covering
  • Lao: ຫມວກ (mūak) — a head covering
  • Latin: pileus — a head covering
  • Latin: petasus — a head covering
  • Latin: causia — a head covering
  • Latin: mitella — a head covering
  • Latin: capellus — a head covering
  • Latvian: cepure — a head covering
  • Latvian: platmale — a head covering
  • Latvian: mice — a head covering
  • Limburgish: hood — a head covering
  • Lingala: ekoti — a head covering
  • Lithuanian: skrybėlė — a head covering
  • Lithuanian: kepurė — a head covering
  • Luxembourgish: Hutt — a head covering
  • Macedonian: ка́па (kápa) — a head covering
  • Macedonian: ша́пка (šápka) — a head covering
  • Malay: topi — a head covering
  • Brunei Malay: tupi — a head covering
  • Malay: توڤي — a head covering
  • Malayalam: തൊപ്പി (toppi) — a head covering
  • Maltese: kappell — a head covering
  • Manchu: ᠮᠠᡥᠠᠯᠠ (mahala) — a head covering
  • Manx: edd — a head covering
  • Māori: pōtae — a head covering
  • Marathi: टोपी (ṭopī) — a head covering
  • Marathi: टोप (ṭop) — a head covering
  • Maricopa: kpur — a head covering
  • Mirandese: chapéu — a head covering
  • Mongolian: малгай (malgaj) — a head covering
  • Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠯᠠᠭᠠᠢ (malaɣai) — a head covering
  • Nanai: апон (apon) — a head covering
  • Navajo: chʼah — a head covering
  • Neapolitan: cappiello — a head covering
  • Ngarrindjeri: kurlinyeri — a head covering
  • Norman: chapé — a head covering
  • Norman: capé — a head covering
  • Norman: chape — a head covering
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hatt — a head covering
  • Norwegian Bokmål: lue — a head covering
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hatt — a head covering
  • Occitan: capèl — a head covering
  • Odia: ଟୋପୀ (ṭopi) — a head covering
  • Northwestern Ojibwa: wiiwakwaan — a head covering
  • Ojibwe: wiiwakwaan — a head covering
  • Old East Slavic: шляпа (šljapa) — a head covering
  • Old East Slavic: колпакъ (kolpakŭ) — a head covering
  • Old English: hætt — a head covering
  • Old Tupi: akangaóba — a head covering
  • Osage: óoląke — a head covering
  • Ossetian: худ (xud) — a head covering
  • Pannonian Rusyn: калап (kalap) — a head covering
  • Pashto: ټوپۍ (ṭopᶕy) — a head covering
  • Pashto: خولۍ (xwalᶕy) — a head covering
  • Pashto: پټاخه (paṭãxa) — a head covering
  • Dari: کُلَاه (kulāh) — a head covering
  • Iranian Persian: کُلاه (kolâh) — a head covering
  • Plautdietsch: Hoot — a head covering
  • Polish: kapelusz — a head covering
  • Polish: kłobuk — a head covering
  • Polish: czapka — a head covering
  • Portuguese: chapéu — a head covering
  • Punjabi: ਟੋਪੀ (ṭopī) — a head covering
  • Punjabi: ٹوپی (ṭopī) — a head covering
  • Quechua: chuku — a head covering
  • Réunion Creole French: sapo — a head covering
  • Romagnol: capéll — a head covering
  • Romanian: pălărie — a head covering
  • Romansh: chapè — a head covering
  • Russian: шля́па (šljápa) — a head covering
  • Russian: ша́пка (šápka) — a head covering
  • Russian: головно́й убо́р (golovnój ubór) — a head covering
  • Scottish Gaelic: ad — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: шѐшӣр — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: кло̀бӯк — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: ша̏пка — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: шкрлак — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: šèšīr — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: klòbūk — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: šȁpka — a head covering
  • Serbo-Croatian: škrlak — a head covering
  • Sicilian: cappeddu — a head covering
  • Sicilian: copricapu — a head covering
  • Silesian: kłobuk — a head covering
  • Sinhalese: තොප්පිය (toppiya) — a head covering
  • Slovak: klobúk — a head covering
  • Slovak: čiapka — a head covering
  • Slovene: klobuk — a head covering
  • Somali: koofiyad — a head covering
  • Lower Sorbian: kłobyk — a head covering
  • Upper Sorbian: kłobuk — a head covering
  • Sotho: katiba — a head covering
  • Spanish: sombrero — a head covering
  • Spanish: sueste — a head covering
  • Old Spanish: sonblero — a head covering
  • Old Spanish: sonbrero — a head covering
  • Sranan Tongo: ati — a head covering
  • Svan: ფაყვ (paq̇v) — a head covering
  • Swahili: kofia — a head covering
  • Swahili: chapeo — a head covering
  • Swedish: hatt — a head covering
  • Swedish: mössa — a head covering
  • Sylheti: ꠐꠇꠤ (ṭoki) — a head covering
  • Tagalog: sumbrero — a head covering
  • Tagalog: sambalilo — a head covering
  • Tajik: кулоҳ (kuloh) — a head covering
  • Tamil: தொப்பி (toppi) — a head covering
  • Tamil: குல்லா (kullā) — a head covering
  • Tatar: эшләпә (eşläpä) — a head covering
  • Tatar: калпак (qalpaq) — a head covering
  • Telugu: టోపి (ṭōpi) — a head covering
  • Thai: หมวก (mùuak) — a head covering
  • Tibetan: ཞྭ་མོ (zhwa mo) — a head covering
  • Tibetan: དབུ་ཞྭ (dbu zhwa) — a head covering
  • Tigrinya: ቆብዕ (ḳobʿ) — a head covering
  • Tigrinya: ባርኔጣ (barneṭa) — a head covering
  • Tillamook: nəš-ditk̓iqwú-tən — a head covering
  • Turkish: şapka — a head covering
  • Turkish: başlık — a head covering
  • Turkish: kalpak — a head covering
  • Turkish: gabbella — a head covering
  • Ottoman Turkish: شاپقه (şapka) — a head covering
  • Turkmen: şlýapa — a head covering
  • Turkmen: telpek — a head covering
  • Turkmen: şapka — a head covering
  • Ukrainian: капелю́х (kapeljúx) — a head covering
  • Ukrainian: ша́пка (šápka) — a head covering
  • Ukrainian: капелю́ха (kapeljúxa) — a head covering
  • Umbundu: etepa — a head covering
  • Urdu: ٹوپی (ṭopī) — a head covering
  • Urdu: ٹوپ (ṭop) — a head covering
  • Uyghur: دوپپا (doppa) — a head covering
  • Uyghur: شەپكە (shepke) — a head covering
  • Uyghur: قالپاق (qalpaq) — a head covering
  • Uzbek: qalpoq — a head covering
  • Uzbek: shapka — a head covering
  • Venetan: capelo — a head covering
  • Venetan: capel — a head covering
  • Vietnamese: mũ — a head covering
  • Vietnamese: nón — a head covering
  • Volapük: hät — a head covering
  • Walloon: tchapea — a head covering
  • Welsh: het — a head covering
  • Welsh: diddosben — a head covering
  • Winnebago: wookąnąk — a head covering
  • Woiwurrung: komperkawang — a head covering
  • Xhosa: umnqwazi — a head covering
  • Yakut: бэргэһэ (bergehe) — a head covering
  • Yiddish: הוט (hut) — a head covering
  • Yiddish: קאַפּעליוש (kapelyush) — a head covering
  • Yiddish: שליאַפּע (shlyape) — a head covering
  • Yup'ik: esslaapaq — a head covering
  • Zazaki: kelaw — a head covering
  • Zhuang: bongj — a head covering
  • Zhuang: mauh — a head covering
  • Danish: kasket — a role or capacity
  • Dutch: pet — a role or capacity
  • Dutch: petje — a role or capacity
  • French: casquette — a role or capacity
  • Hungarian: szerep — a role or capacity
  • Hungarian: minőség — a role or capacity
  • Thai: หัวโขน (hǔua-kǒon) — a role or capacity