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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?t, IPA^(key): /h?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijan? (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh?eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).

Cognate with Icelandic hitta (“to meet”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Latin caed? (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”).

Verb

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)

1. (heading, physical) To strike.
   1. (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
      • 1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves

        He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.

      • 1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game

        I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.

   2. (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

      • a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.

      • 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance

        Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.

   3. (intransitive) To strike against something.

      • If bodies be extension alone, […] how can they move and hit one against another?

   4. (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

   5. (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.
      • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)

        FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.

   6. (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.

2. (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

   I hit the jackpot.

   Antonym: miss

3. (transitive, colloquial) To switch on.

   Antonyms: cut, kill

   Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!

4. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.

5. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

6. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
   1. (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.
      • 2012, August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited, London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal:

        And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.

   2. (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
      • 1733, Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, a Rhapsody

        Millions miss for one that hits.

   3. To guess; to light upon or discover.
7. (transitive) To affect negatively.

8. (figuratively) To attack.
9. (heading, games) To make a play.
   1. (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.

   2. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.

   3. (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
10. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.

11. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.

12. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

Synonyms

• (administer a blow): beat, pelt, thump; see also Thesaurus:hit
• (kill a person): bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
• (attack): beset, fall upon, lay into; see also Thesaurus:attack
• (have sex with): bang, ram, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (smoke marijuana): smoke up, toke

Antonyms

• (manage to touch in the right place): miss

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

hit (plural hits)

1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

   • So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.

   The hit was very slight.

3. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
4. An attack on a location, person or people.
5. A collision of a projectile with the target.
   1. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
6. (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
7. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

   My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

8. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
9. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

   The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.

10. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    Where am I going to get my next hit?

11. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
12. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    a happy hit
13. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
14. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Antonyms

• (a punch): miss
• (success): flop, turkey

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

hit (not comparable)

1. Very successful.

   The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it. Note 'it.

Pronoun

hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)

1. (dialectal) It.
   • 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, Volume 130:

     But how hit was to come about didn't appear.

   • 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:

     Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.

Derived terms

• hits
• hitself

Anagrams

• iht, ith, thi-

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• hüt, hüüd (Uri)

Etymology

From Old High German hiutu, from hiu +? tagu, a calque of Latin hodie. Cognate with German heute, Dutch heden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t/

Adverb

hit

1. (Alsatian) today

Catalan

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

   Synonym: èxit

References

Chamorro

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita. Doublet of ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Pronoun

hit

1. we, us (inclusive)

Usage notes

• hit is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or as an object of a transitive verb, while ta is used as a subject of a transitive verb.
• In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, hit can be used as a subject.

See also

References

• Donald M. Topping (1973) Chamorro Reference Grammar?^[6], Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

Czech

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t/

Noun

hit m

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: šlágr

Danish

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/, [?hid?]

Noun

hit n (singular definite hittet, plural indefinite hit or hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

Inflection

Further reading

• “hit” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: hit
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English hit.

Noun

hit m (plural hits, diminutive hitje n)

1. A hit song, a very popular and successful song.
2. (by extension) A success, something popular and successful (especially in the entertainment industry).

Derived terms

• feesthit
• kersthit
• zomerhit

Etymology 2

Shortening of Hitlander (“Shetlander”).

Noun

hit m (plural hitten, diminutive hitje n or hitske n)

1. (dated) A Shetland pony.
2. (dated, regional) Any pony or small horse.

Derived terms

• daghit

Hungarian

Etymology

From hisz (“to believe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hit]
• Rhymes: -it

Noun

hit (plural hitek)

1. faith, belief
2. (archaic) oath, word of honour (e.g. in hitves and hitet tesz)

Declension

Derived terms

(Expressions):

• hitet tesz

Further reading

• hit 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

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Adverb

hit

1. here

Determiner

hit

1. this

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[7], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Limburgish

Etymology

From Dutch hit, from English hit.

Noun

hit f

1. (slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)

Usage notes

Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, therefore slaag is more often used.

Inflection

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
• The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?t/

Pronoun

hit

1. Alternative form of het

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hyt, hitt, hitte, hytte, it, yt, itt, jt, itte

Etymology

From Old English hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/, /it/

Pronoun

hit (accusative hit, genitive hit, his, possessive determiner hit, his)

2. Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
3. Sometimes used in reference to a child or man: he, she
4. Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
5. Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its
6. (impersonal, placeholder) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it

Descendants

• English: it
• Scots: hid

See also

Determiner

hit (nominative pronoun hit)

1. Third-person singular neuter possessive determiner: it

References

• “hit, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

Min Nan

Norwegian Bokmål

Adverb

hit

1. here (to this place)

References

• “hit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?t/

Adverb

hit

1. here (to this place)

References

• “hit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronoun

hit

1. it

Alternative forms

• it

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: het
  • Dutch: het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form of dat)
  • Limburgish: hèt

Further reading

• “hit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Alternative forms

• hitt

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *?e-, *?ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisian hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic ???????????????? (hita, “it”). More at h?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xit/, [hit]

Pronoun

hit n (accusative hit, genitive his, dative him)

1. it

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hit, hyt, hitt, hitte, hytte, it, yt, itt, jt, itte
  • English: it
  • Scots: hid

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Article

hit

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of hinn

Declension

Polish

Etymology

From English hit, from Middle English hitten, from Old English hittan, from Old Norse hitta, from Proto-Germanic *hittijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *kh?eyd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x?it/

Noun

hit m inan

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

Declension

Further reading

• hit in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• hit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English hit.

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: sucesso

Further reading

• “hit” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?xit/, [?xit?]

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success)

   Synonym: éxito

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hit, from *h?+at.

• h?, from Proto-Indo-European *kei- (as in Ancient Greek ???? (ekeî))
• at, from Proto-Germanic *at, from Proto-Indo-European *ád (as in Swedish åt)

Composed in a similar way: Icelandic hegat and hingað.

Pronunciation

Adverb

hit (not comparable)

1. here; to this place, hither

Antonyms

• dit

Related terms

• hitåt

See also

• hit och dit
• här

Etymology 2

From English hit.

Noun

hit c

1. (informal) hit; something very popular. (A book, a movie, a song, ...)

English

Etymology

From Middle English hamer, from Old English hamor, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz (“tool with a stone head”) (compare West Frisian hammer, Low German Hamer, Dutch hamer, German Hammer, Danish hammer, Swedish hammare), from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros (compare Sanskrit ????? (a?mará, “stony”)), itself a derivation from *h?é?m? (“stone”).

For *h?é?m? (“stone”), compare Lithuanian akmuõ, Latvian akmens, Russian ?????? (kamen?), Serbo-Croatian kam?n, Albanian kmesë (“sickle”), Ancient Greek ????? (ákm?n, “meteor rock, anvil”), Avestan ????????????????????? (namsa), Sanskrit ?????? (á?man)) (root *h?e?- (“sharp”)).

(declare a defaulter on the stock exchange): Originally signalled by knocking with a wooden mallet.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?hæ.m?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æm?(r)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?hæ.m?/

Noun

hammer (plural hammers)

1. A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

2. The act of using a hammer to hit something.

3. A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
4. (anatomy) The malleus, a small bone of the middle ear.
5. (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.

6. (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
7. (curling) The last stone in an end.
8. (frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
9. Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
10. One who, or that which, smites or shatters.

    St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.

    • 1849, John Henry Newman, Discourses to Mixed Congregations

      He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.

11. (journalism) Short for hammer headline.
    • 1981, Harry W. Stonecipher, ?Edward C. Nicholls, ?Douglas A. Anderson, Electronic Age News Editing (page 104)

      Hammers are, in essence, reverse kickers. Instead of being set in smaller type like kickers, hammers are set in larger type than headlines.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• mallet

Verb

hammer (third-person singular simple present hammers, present participle hammering, simple past and past participle hammered)

1. To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.

   • hammered money

3. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
4. (sports) To hit particularly hard.
5. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.
   • 2011, Tim Moore, French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France (page 58)

     Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre.
6. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.

   I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.

7. (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly

   We hammered them 5-0!

8. (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
   • 1995, Optimizing Windows NT (volume 4, page 226)

     So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]

9. (transitive, finance) To declare (a person) a defaulter on the stock exchange.
10. (transitive, finance) To beat down the price of (a stock), or depress (a market).
11. (transitive, colloquial) To have hard sex with

    Synonym: pound

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• hammer out

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ham?r/, [?h?m?]

Noun

hammer c (singular definite hammeren, plural indefinite hammere or hamre)

1. hammer

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ham?/
• Homophone: Hammer

Verb

hammer

1. (colloquial, regional) Contraction of haben wir.

Usage notes

This contraction is common throughout central Germany, southern Germany, and Austria. It is only occasionally heard in northern Germany.

See also

• simmer

Middle English

Noun

hammer

1. Alternative form of hamer

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hamarr, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).

Alternative forms

• hammar

Noun

hammer m (definite singular hammeren, indefinite plural hammere or hamrer, definite plural hammerne or hamrene)

1. a hammer (tool)

Related terms

• hamre (verb)

Etymology 2

Noun

hammer m

1. indefinite plural of ham

References

• “hammer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hamar, from Proto-Germanic *hamaraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?moros, from *h?é?m? (“stone”).

Noun

hammer c (plural hammers, diminutive hammerke)

1. hammer

Further reading

• “hammer”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011