Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wade
IPA transcription: [w'eɪd]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Wade, Virginia_Wade
    Meaning: English tennis player who won many women's singles titles (born in 1945)
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: wade
    Meaning: walk (through relatively shallow water); "Can we wade across the river to the other side?"; "Wade the pond"
Usage examples
  • 1860--May 9, nominated for President, "shutting out" Seward, Chase, Cameron, Dayton, Wade, Bates, and McLean.
  • Then the giant fled and the knight after him, and so he drove him into a water, but the giant was so high that he might not wade after him.
  • To wade out into the sea, into this warm lapping that mingled the natures of water and light, to stand there breast-high, to thrust my revolver barrel into my mouth------?
  • I was tempted to say, "Why not my heart?" I was glad she didn't know how good that heart did feel under my blouse when the boy brought that basket of fish from Judge Wade's fishing expedition Saturday.