wade
IPA: wˈeɪd
noun
- An act of wading.
- (colloquial) A ford; a place to cross a river.
- A topographic surname from Old English.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
- A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
- A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
- Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County.
- Obsolete form of woad. [(countable) The plant Isatis tinctoria.]
verb
- (intransitive) to walk through water or something that impedes progress.
- (intransitive) to progress with difficulty
- (transitive) to walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading
- (intransitive) To enter recklessly.
Examples of "wade" in Sentences
- Anna wades into the sea in anguish after the ceremony.
- Phoebe marries the much younger Wade in a drunken stupor.
- Phoebe marries the much younger Wade who is known for a drunken stupor.
- At the foot of the tower is the vault of the Wade family from Wades Green.
- Renald Wade is a slightly inarticulate young man whose marriage is in a mess.
- One can haphazardly find Wade Giles and Pinyin combined in the same articles.