hidden
- concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- past participle of hide1.
Synonyms
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- to conceal from sight; prevent from being seen or discovered: Where did she hide her jewels?
- to obstruct the view of; cover up: The sun was hidden by the clouds.
- to conceal from knowledge or exposure; keep secret: to hide one's feelings.
- to conceal oneself; lie concealed: He hid in the closet.
- British. a place of concealment for hunting or observing wildlife; hunting blind.
- hide out, to go into or remain in hiding: After breaking out of jail, he hid out in a deserted farmhouse.
Origin of hide1
Synonyms
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hide2
- the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals (cow, horse, buffalo, etc.), raw or dressed.
- Informal.
- the skin of a human being: Get out of here or I'll tan your hide!
- safety or welfare: He's only worried about his own hide.
- Australia and New Zealand Informal. impertinence; impudence.
- Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
- to protect (a rope, as a boltrope of a sail) with a covering of leather.
- hide nor hair, a trace or evidence, as of something missing: They didn't find hide nor hair of the murder weapon.Also hide or hair.
Origin of hide2
Synonyms
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Contemporary Examples
Meanwhile advocacy groups like GLAAD help rid our larger culture of hidden biases and bigotry.
How You Can Help Make a More LGBT-Friendly WorldDecember 12, 2014
Wonderland posted videos taken with a hidden camera—in a cross necklace, or inside a watch or glasses—of him hitting on women.
The FC-31 prototype was hidden except when it was flying, and not much detail was available.
Then, from a pocket inside his camouflage top, he pulled a hidden stainless steel flask.
Letters would not be hidden away in bedrooms but stored on cell phones.
Historical Examples
Some of your money is hidden away in the cellar, I'm thinking.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
He read between the lines, and comprehended the hidden meaning at once.
Harriet, The Moses of Her PeopleSarah H. Bradford
He thought of the grinning men of the saloon; the hidden words.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand
At my departure their tomb had been hidden in the morning mist.
Fragments from The Journal of a Solitary ManNathaniel Hawthorne
I understand many things that were hidden from the plain girl from the West.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
hidden
- a past participle of hide 1
- concealed or obscureda hidden cave; a hidden meaning
hide1
- to put or keep (oneself or an object) in a secret place; conceal (oneself or an object) from view or discoveryto hide a pencil; to hide from the police
- (tr) to conceal or obscurethe clouds hid the sun
- (tr) to keep secret
- (tr) to turn (one's head, eyes, etc) away
- British a place of concealment, usually disguised to appear as part of the natural environment, used by hunters, birdwatchers, etcUS and Canadian equivalent: blind
Word Origin
hide2
- the skin of an animal, esp the tough thick skin of a large mammal, either tanned or raw
- informal the human skin
- Australian and NZ informal impudence
- (tr) informal to flog
Word Origin
hide3
- an obsolete Brit unit of land measure, varying in magnitude from about 60 to 120 acres
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for hidden
adj.
past participle of hide (v.1); a Middle English formation (Old English had gehydd "hidden") on the model of ride/ridden, etc. Hidden persuaders (1957) was Vance Packard's term for "ad men."
hide
v.1
Old English hydan "to hide, conceal; preserve; hide oneself; bury a corpse," from West Germanic *hudjan (cf. Middle Dutch, Middle Low German huden), from PIE *keudh- (cf. Greek keuthein "to hide, conceal"), from root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)). Hide and seek (by 1670s), children's game, replaced earlier all hid (1580s).
hide
n.1
"skin of a large animal," Old English hyd "hide, skin," from Proto-Germanic *hudiz (cf. Old Norse huð, Old Frisian hed, Middle Dutch huut, Dutch huid, Old High German hut, German Haut "skin"), related to Old English verb hydan "to hide," the common notion being of "covering."
All of this is from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (cf. Sanskrit kostha "enclosing wall," skunati "covers;" Armenian ciw "roof;" Latin cutis "skin," scutum "shield," ob-scurus "dark;" Greek kytos "a hollow, vessel," keutho "to cover, to hide," skynia "eyebrows;" Russian kishka "gut," literally "sheath;" Lithuanian kiautas "husk," kutis "stall;" Old Norse sky "cloud;" Old English sceo "cloud;" Middle High German hode "scrotum;" Old High German scura, German Scheuer "barn;" Welsh cuddio "to hide").
The alliterative pairing of hide and hair (often negative, hide nor hair) was in Middle English (early 15c.), but earlier and more common was hide ne hewe, literally "skin and complexion ('hue')" (c.1200).
hide
n.2
"measure of land" (obsolete), Old English hid "hide of land," earlier higid, from hiw- "family" (cf. hiwan "household," hiwo "a husband, master of a household"), from Proto-Germanic *hiwido-, from PIE *keiwo- (cf. Latin civis "citizen"), from root *kei- "to lie; bed, couch; beloved, dear" (see cemetery, and cf. city).
The notion was of "amount of land needed to feed one free family and dependents," usually 100 or 120 acres, but the amount could be as little as 60, depending on the quality of the land. Often also defined as "as much land as could be tilled by one plow in a year." Translated in Latin as familia.
Idioms and Phrases with hidden
hide
In addition to the idioms beginning with hide
- hide and seek
- hide nor hair, neither
- hide one's face
- hide one's head in the sand
- hide one's light under a bushel
- hide out
also see:
- cover one's ass (hide)
- tan one's hide