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How to pronounce hat
Say it like this: /hæt/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does hat mean?
nounA 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.
“Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!”
A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
“It's all a matter of hats, Minister.”
Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
verbTo place a hat on.
“After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.”
To appoint as cardinal.
To shop for hats.
“Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.”
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