hidden
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
hidden
- past participle of hide
Adjective
hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)
- 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.
- Obscure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
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Antonyms
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Derived terms
Translations
out of sight; not visually apparent
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obscure
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Noun
hidden (plural hiddens)
- (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
Verb
hidden (third-person singular present hitt, past participle gehitt, auxiliary verb hunn)
- (transitive) to tend, to mind, to look after
Conjugation
(n) or (nn) indicates the Eifeler Regel.
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