hidden

See also: Hidden

English

Etymology

Morphologically hid +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĭdʹn, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪd(ə)n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈhɪdn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪdən

Verb

hidden

1. past participle of hide

Adjective

hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)

1. Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.

   hidden treasure; hidden talents

   • 1892, James Yoxall, The Lonely Pyramid, chapter 7:

     It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood.

   • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:

     One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

2. Obscure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Antonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Derived terms

• hidden agenda
• hidden asset
• hidden-ball trick
• hidden champion
• hidden city
• hidden code
• hidden curriculum
• hidden forest chipmunk
• hidden gem
• hidden in plain sight
• hidden layer
• hidden Markov model
• hidden quantity
• hidden tax
• hidden track
• hidden variable

Translations

out of sight; not visually apparent

Arabic: مُخْفًى (ar) (muḵfan), خَفِيّ (ḵafiyy), مُخْتَبِئ (muḵtabiʔ) Hijazi Arabic: مُتْخَبِّي (mutḵabbi) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: йәшерелгән (yəşerelgən); (invisible) күҙгә күренмәгән (küźgə kürenməgən), күҙгә күренмәҫ (küźgə kürenməś) Bhojpuri: छिपल (chipal) Bulgarian: скрит (bg) (skrit) Catalan: amagat (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: please add this translation if you can Dutch: verscholen (nl), verborgen (nl) Egyptian: (jmn) Finnish: piilossa (fi), piilo- (fi), piilevä (fi), kätketty (fi), piilotettu (fi) French: caché (fr) Galician: escondido Georgian: ფარული (paruli), დამალული (damaluli) German: versteckt (de) Greek: Ancient: κρυπτός (kruptós) Hebrew: מֻסְתָּר (mustar), נִסְתַּר (nistar) (poetic) Hindi: छुपा (chupā) Hungarian: rejtett (hu) Irish: ceilte, folaithe Italian: nascosto (it), recondito (it) Japanese: 隠れた (ja) (kakureta), 目に見えない (me ni mienai), 潜在する (ja) (senzai suru) Khmer: លាក់ (km) (lĕək) Khmu: ມັ່ງ Korean: 숨겨진 (sumgyeojin) Latin: occultus, abditus, cēlātus Lithuanian: paslėptas m Macedonian: скри́ен (skríen) Maori: huna, hunahuna Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Nepali: लुकेको (lukeko) Polish: ukryty (pl) Portuguese: escondido (pt) Romanian: ascuns (ro) Russian: (intentionally hidden) спря́танный (ru) (sprjátannyj), скры́тый (ru) (skrýtyj) Sanskrit: गुप्त (sa) (gupta) Spanish: escondido (es), oculto (es) Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: gömd (sv), undangömd (sv), hemlig (sv) Thai: ซ่อน (th) (sɔ̂ɔn) Turkish: gizli (tr), saklı (tr) Ukrainian: прихо́ваний (pryxóvanyj), схо́ваний (sxóvanyj) Vietnamese: ẩn (vi) Welsh: anweledig (cy)

obscure

Bashkir: аңлайышһыҙ (añlayışhıź) Bulgarian: скрит (bg) (skrit) Dutch: obscuur (nl), verborgen (nl), versluierd (nl) Finnish: piilotettu (fi), piiloutunut (fi) Lithuanian: neaiškus m Macedonian: не́јасен (néjasen) Polish: ukryty (pl) Portuguese: abstruso (pt), obscuro (pt) Russian: нея́сный (ru) (nejásnyj), сму́тный (ru) (smútnyj) Vietnamese: ẩn khuất

that has been hidden

Bashkir: йәшерелгән (yəşerelgən), йәшерен (yəşeren) Czech: skrytý (cs) Dutch: verborgen (nl), verscholen (nl), verstopt (nl) Esperanto: kaŝa, ĉi kaŝita Estonian: peidetud Finnish: piilotettu (fi), kätketty (fi), piilo- (fi) French: caché (fr) Georgian: ფარული (paruli) German: versteckt (de), verborgen (de) Hebrew: גָּנוּז (ganuz) Hungarian: rejtett (hu), elrejtett (hu) Irish: ceilte Italian: nascosto (it), recondito (it), celato (it), occulto (it) Japanese: 隠された (kakusareta), 秘密の (ja) (himitsu no) Khmer: លាក់ (km) (lĕək) Khmu: ມັ່ງ Latin: abditus Macedonian: скри́ен (skríen) Persian: نهان (fa) (nahân) Polish: ukryty (pl) Portuguese: escondido (pt) Rapa Nui: hakananai'a Romanian: ascuns (ro) Russian: спря́танный (ru) (sprjátannyj), скры́тый (ru) (skrýtyj), потаённый (ru) (potajónnyj) Spanish: oculto (es) Vietnamese: giấu (vi), ẩn (vi)

Noun

hidden (plural hiddens)

1. (crosswording) A hidden answer clue; one in which the letters of the solution appear consecutively in the wordplay.
   • 1975, Games & Puzzles:

     Hiddens are indicated thus; (e.g.) Grow (maraudinG ROWdies).

   • 1987, The Listener:

     The two types of clue which everyone should aim to solve at first reading are anagrams and hiddens.

   • 2020 August 20, Telegraph Media Group Ltd, The Telegraph: How To Solve a Cryptic Crossword: Mastering cryptic crosswords made easy, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 3:

     16 of the 30 clues in this puzzle are hiddens; these are asterisked.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German hüeten, from Old High German huoten, from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiden/, [ˈhidən]
• Rhymes: -idən

Verb

hidden (third-person singular present hitt, past participle gehitt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to tend, to mind, to look after

Conjugation

Regular

infinitive	hidden
participle	gehitt
auxiliary	hunn
	present indicative	imperative
1st singular	hidden	—
2nd singular	hitts	hitt
3rd singular	hitt	—
1st plural	hidden	—
2nd plural	hitt	hitt
3rd plural	hidden	—

(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.