different between every vs had

English

Alternative forms

• ev’ry (poetic)
• euery (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English every, everich, eaver-euch, averiche, aver alche, ever ælche, from Old English ?fre ?l?, ?fre ??hwil?, ?fre ?ehwil? (“each and every”), equivalent to ever +? each and/or ever +? which.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??v.(?.)?i/
• Hyphenation: eve?ry, ev?e?ry

Determiner

every

1. All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.

   • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
2. Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.

3. (with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.

   We wish you every happiness in the future.

   I have every confidence in him.

   There is every reason why we should not go.

Synonyms

• each
• (slang) e'ry

Antonyms

• no
• none

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ibri

Translations

See also

• all
• each

Anagrams

• veery, verye, y'ever

Middle English

Adjective

every

1. Alternative form of everich
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 3-4.

     And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

     Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

English

Etymology

From Middle English hadde (preterite), yhad (past participle), from Old English hæfde (first and third person singular preterite), ?ehæfd (past participle), from Proto-Germanic *habd-, past and past participle stem of *habjan? (“to have”), equivalent to have +? -ed. Cognate with Dutch had, German hatte, Swedish hade, Icelandic hafði.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæd/
• (had to): IPA^(key): /hæt/, IPA^(key): /hæd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Verb

had

1. simple past tense and past participle of have.
2. (auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (with a past participle).
   • 2011 April 15, Ben Cooper, The Guardian, London:

     Cooper seems an odd choice, but imagine if they had taken MTV's advice and chosen Robert Pattinson?

3. (auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: would have.
   • 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:

     To holde myne honde, by God, I had grete payne; / For forthwyth there I had him slayne, / But that I drede mordre wolde come oute […].

   • 1849, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 24:

     If all was good and fair we met, / This earth had been the Paradise / It never look’d to human eyes / Since our first Sun arose and set.

Derived terms

• had better
• had best

Adjective

had

1. (informal) Duped.

   We've been had.

2. (obsolete) Available.

Usage notes

Had, like that, is one of a very few words to be correctly used twice in succession in English, e.g. “He had had several operations previously.”

Related terms

• be had

Anagrams

• ADH, AHD, DHA, HDA, dah

Afrikaans

Verb

had

1. preterite of hê; had

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *satos, from *sh?-tó-, past participle of Proto-Indo-European *seh?- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Noun

had m (plural hadoù)

1. (botany) seed

Central Cagayan Agta

Pronoun

had

1. (interrogative) where

Czech

Etymology

From Old Czech had, from Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??at]
• Hyphenation: had
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

had m anim

1. snake

Declension

Derived terms

• hád?
• hadí
• hadice

Related terms

• hadice f

Further reading

• had in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• had in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz, from Proto-Indo-European *keh?d- (“hate”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ad

Noun

had n (singular definite hadet, not used in plural form)

1. hate, hatred

Related terms

Verb

had

1. imperative of hade

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• IPA^(key): /??t/

Verb

had

1. singular past indicative of hebben

Hungarian

Etymology

From Old Hungarian hodu, from Proto-Ugric *kont?, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kunta. Cognate with Finnish kunta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?d]
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

had (plural hadak)

1. (military) army

Declension

Derived terms

• hadászat
• hadi

References

Further reading

• had in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Jersey Dutch

Verb

had

1. had
   • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:

     En kääd'l had twî jongers; […]

     A man had two sons. […]

Matal

Verb

had

1. to walk, go

References

Middle English

Noun

had

1. Alternative form of hod

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Noun

had m

1. snake

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: had

Further reading

• “had”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[1], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haiduz (“state, condition, rank, person”). Akin to Old Norse heiðr (“dignity, honor”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (haidus, “manner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x??d/, [h??d]

Noun

h?d m (nominative plural h?das)

1. person, individual
2. a character
   • c. 1011, Byrhtferth, Manual

3. individuality
4. rank, status
   • 9th century, the Blickling Homilies, "The Third Sunday in Lent"

5. a person of the Trinity
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "Of the Catholic Faith"

6. honor, dignity
7. office (esp religious)
8. state, condition; nature, manner
9. gender
   • 10th century, Ælfric, "On the Nativity of the Holy Virgins"

10. (grammar) grammatical person
    • c. 995, Ælfric, Excerptiones de Arte Grammatica Anglice

11. race; kindred, family; tribe, group
12. choir

Declension

Related terms

• -h?d

Descendants

• Middle English: hod, hode, had, hade, hede
  • English: hade, hede (obsolete)
  • Scots: hade (obsolete)

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at/

Noun

had m (genitive singular hada, nominative plural hady, genitive plural hadov, declension pattern of dub)

1. snake, serpent

Declension

Derived terms

• hadí
• hadica f

Further reading

• had in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (?add).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /had/, [h??d?]

Noun

had (definite accusative haddi, plural hadler)

1. limit
2. boundary

Declension

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gad?.

Noun

had m

1. snake, serpent

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sato-, from Proto-Indo-European *sh?-tó-, past participle of *seh?- (“to sow”). Cognate with English seed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?d/

Noun

had m pl or m sg (singulative hedyn, plural hadau)

1. seed, seeds (collectively)
2. semen, sperm

Related terms

• hadu (“to sow”)