hyde

H4Y4D2E1
/haɪd/

proper noun

An English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living on a hide of land.

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Meanings

hyde1

nounhyde (plural hydes)

plural hydes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hide (area of land)
verbhyde (third-person singular simple present hydes, present participle hyding, simple past hyd, past participle hydden)

present singular third person hydes · participle present hyding · past hyd · participle past hydden

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of hide.

Hyde2

proper nounHyde (countable and uncountable, plural Hydes)

plural Hydes

  1. countableuncountableAn English topographic surname from Middle English for someone living on a hide of land.
  2. A number of places in England:
    1. countableuncountableA civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire.
    2. countableuncountableA hamlet in Minchinhampton parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8801).
    3. countableuncountableA town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester (formerly in Cheshire).
    4. countableuncountableA small village and civil parish in New Forest district, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU1612).
    5. countableuncountableA suburb of Winchester, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4830).
    6. countableuncountableA hamlet in Swindon borough, Wiltshire, probably in Blunsdon parish (OS grid ref SU1589).
  3. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, United States.
  4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Ridgeway, Iowa County, Wisconsin, United States.
  5. countableuncountableA rural locality in Otago, New Zealand, between Middlemarch and Ranfurly.

Origin

* As an English surname, from the root of hide (“measure of land”). * Also as an English surname, spelling variant of Ide. * As a Jewish surname, Americanized from Haid.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with hyde

saidguideprovidesideinsideoutsideworldwideappliedtrieddecidenationwideprideasidetiedimpliedbrideidestatewideeyedalliedtidedividedriedbeside
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Sounds the same

hide

Anagrams

dhye
Cite this entry
APA

hyde. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyde

MLA

“hyde.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyde. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hyde,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hyde.

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