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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?d?n, IPA^(key): /?h?d(?)n/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?h?dn/

• Rhymes: -?d?n

Verb

hidden

1. past participle of hide

Adjective

hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)

1. Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
2. Obscure. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Antonyms

• See Thesaurus:hidden

Derived terms

• hidden tax

Translations

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German huoten, from Proto-Germanic *h?dijan?. Cognate with German hüten, Dutch hoeden, and English heed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hiden/, [?hid?n]
• Rhymes: -id?n

Verb

hidden (third-person singular present hitt, past participle gehitt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (transitive) to tend, to mind, to look after

Conjugation

English

Etymology

From Latin occult?ti?nem, accusative singular of occult?ti? (“concealment; insinuation”), from occult?re, present active infinitive of occult? (“to conceal, hide”); analysable as occult +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k?l?te??(?)n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k?l?te??(?)n/
• Hyphenation: oc?cul?ta?tion

Noun

occultation (countable and uncountable, plural occultations)

1. (astronomy) An astronomical event that occurs when one celestial object is hidden by another celestial object that passes between it and the observer when the nearer object appears larger and completely hides the more distant object.

   Synonym: eclipse
2. The state of being occult (“hidden, undetected”).

   Synonyms: hiddenness, invisibility, occultness
3. (Shia Islam) The disappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who is believed alive and present in this world, but hidden until his reappearance at the end of time.

Alternative forms

• accultation (rare)

Derived terms

• deoccultation
• lunar occultation
• nonoccultation
• preoccultation

Translations

See also

• eclipse
• syzygy

References

Further reading

• occultation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• occultation (Islam) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia