Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Concealed; placed in secrecy.
  • Secret; unseen; mysterious.
  • Synonyms Covert, occult, recondite, profound, abstruse, obscure, latent, private, dormant, clandestine, close, unknown.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • past participle from hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
  • past participle (Mus.) consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Past participle of hide
  • adjective Not visible or apparent.
  • adjective Obscure.
  • adjective this sense?) That has been hidden.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not accessible to view
  • adjective designed to elude detection
  • adjective difficult to find

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Examples

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  • * shows Felipe where the hidden stash of tequila is hidden*

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  • Berezovsky explicitly states in his court action that he wanted his name hidden from ownership of his assets after 2006 because he believed he was being pursued by the Russian authorities, having become a public opponent of Putin.

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  • Julia stared at her teacup, her expression hidden behind the peas.

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  • She glanced sideways at him, her expression hidden behind her aviator shades, her mouth a flat line.

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  • She glanced sideways at him, her expression hidden behind her aviator shades, her mouth a flat line.

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  • She glanced sideways at him, her expression hidden behind her aviator shades, her mouth a flat line.

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  • A noönaut like Bandar enters the Commons through meditation, and his psyche traverses it using various chants (called "thrans") to move among different landscapes and remain hidden from the more nasty archetypes.

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  • In this way, the law firms thought, coveted information about their associates such as their areas of practice, their e-mail addresses, and their hair colors would remain hidden from the conniving legal recruiters who wanted to steal the associates away from them.

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  • He boasted the acronym hidden in the picture of a gun on his forearm which read, M.P.R., the familiar street formula for longevity and success, Money, Power and Respect.

    The Brotherhood of Man Kimani Kinyua 2006

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