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Chad

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A country of north-central Africa. Once part of French Equatorial Africa, it became independent in 1960. N'Djamena is the capital and the largest city.
  • Lake,A shallow lake of north-central Africa in Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria. It has greatly diminished in size since the 1970s.

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  • proper noun A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad.
  • proper noun A male given name. Also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names
  • proper noun UK The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.

Etymologies

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Old English Ceadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh century saint, revived in the 20th century.

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Believed to be from Kanuri tsade ("lake", after Lake Chad)

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rhymes (32)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Brad
  2. Dad
  3. Gad
  4. Mossad
  5. Riyadh
  6. Tad
  7. Thad
  8. ad
  9. add
  10. bad
  11. brad
  12. cad
  13. clad
  14. dad
  15. fad
  16. forbad
  17. gad
  18. glad
  19. grad
  20. had
  21. lad
  22. mad
  23. nad
  24. pad
  25. plaid
  26. rad
  27. radde
  28. sad
  29. scad
  30. shad
  31. shadd
  32. tad

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  • plethora commented on the word Chad

    Cf. chad

    May 26, 2010

  • scarequotes commented on the word Chad

    https://www.vox.com/world/2018/4/25/17277496/incel-toronto-attack-alek-minassian

    But many incels have a much more sinister, and specific, worldview — one that the Southern Poverty Law Center sees as part of a dangerous trend toward male radicalization online. These incels post obsessively about so-called “Chads,” meaning sexually successful and attractive men, and “Stacys,” attractive, promiscuous women who sleep with the Chads. Both are positioned as unattainable: The Chad is the masculine ideal, one incel men cannot emulate for reasons of poor genetics, while the Stacy is whom every incel man wants to sleep with but cannot because they aren’t a Chad.

    April 25, 2018