WADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wade mean? 

• WADE (noun)
  The noun WADE has 1 sense:

1. English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)

  Familiarity information: WADE used as a noun is very rare.

• WADE (verb)
  The verb WADE has 1 sense:

1. walk (through relatively shallow water)

  Familiarity information: WADE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WADE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Virginia Wade; Wade

Instance hypernyms:

tennis player (an athlete who plays tennis)

Derivation:

wade (walk (through relatively shallow water))

• WADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they wade    ... he / she / it wades   
Past simple: waded   
Past participle: waded   
-ing form: wading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk (through relatively shallow water)

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

Wade the pond

Hypernyms (to "wade" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wade"):

puddle (wade or dabble in a puddle)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These men wade across the river

Derivation:

Wade (English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945))

wader (any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food)

wading (walking with your feet in shallow water)

 Context examples 

How can I wade through that and talk with you?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It must be waded through, however.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

No lives were lost, and we could wade ashore in safety.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I waded with what haste I could, and swam in the middle about thirty yards, till I felt ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They were making out to me, in an agitated way—I don't know how, for the little I could hear I was scarcely composed enough to understand—that the lifeboat had been bravely manned an hour ago, and could do nothing; and that as no man would be so desperate as to attempt to wade off with a rope, and establish a communication with the shore, there was nothing left to try; when I noticed that some new sensation moved the people on the beach, and saw them part, and Ham come breaking through them to the front.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I struck straight into the heath; I held on to a hollow I saw deeply furrowing the brown moorside; I waded knee-deep in its dark growth; I turned with its turnings, and finding a moss-blackened granite crag in a hidden angle, I sat down under it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Bird life was abundant, especially the wading birds, stork, heron, and ibis gathering in little groups, blue, scarlet, and white, upon every log which jutted from the bank, while beneath us the crystal water was alive with fish of every shape and color.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun was lying low in the west and shooting its level rays across the long sweep of rich green country, glinting on the white-fleeced sheep and throwing long shadows from the red kine who waded knee-deep in the juicy clover.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The floor was thick with mud where ruffians had sat down to drink or consult after wading in the marshes round their camp.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When the ships came up, I stripped myself, and waded till I came within a hundred yards off the boat, after which I was forced to swim till I got up to it.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)