cad
/kæd/
cad noun: a low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
Noun (1)
cad (plural cads)
- A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
- I make him sound like a cad, but he’s not. Early on, when I fell seriously ill, he cared for me devotedly. He’s witty, sweet, a great cook and easy on the eyes.2025 February 28, Laura Esther Wolfson, “Rules for Staying Close to Exes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
- We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.c. 1835, Charles Dickens, "Omnibuses" (in Sketches by Boz)
- I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff a cad, as they call it.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861
- An idle hanger-on about innyards.
Verb
cad (third-person singular simple present cads, present participle cadding, simple past and past participle cadded)
- to mat or felt together
Noun (2)
cad (plural cads)
- A caddis (caddisfly larva).
Noun (3) capitalized: CAD
CAD (countable and uncountable, plural CADs)
- Acronym of computer-aided design.
- I'll wager a Dogic that before TwistyPuzzles.com turns 10 we'll be posting 3D CAD files that we can individually upload to FedExKinkos.com to have fabricated and have the resulting puzzle overnighted to us by 8am the next day.2004 September 17, Joshua Bell, TwistyPuzzles.com
- Initialism of computer-aided drafting.
- Initialism of control alt delete.
- Initialism of cash against documents, an arrangement where the purchaser must pay the total price in cash in order to get shipping papers from the seller or (usually) a third party.
- Initialism of coronary artery disease.
- Synonyms:
- CHD, coronary heart disease, IHD, w:ischemic heart disease
- Initialism of computer-aided diagnosis.
- Therefore, there are various researches to improve a dementia diagnosis process in the field of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) technology.2017, Sunjoo Bang et al, "Quad-phased data mining modeling for dementia diagnosis" in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 17(Supp1):60, at Abstract>Background.
- Initialism of cold agglutinin disease.
- Initialism of computer-aided dispatch.
- Initialism of caspase-activated DNase.
cad meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
cad in Hindi
- सी. ए. डी, कैड, सीएडी
cad in Marathi
- सी. ए. डी, कॅड
cad in Bengali
- সিএডি, ক্যাড, সি. এ. ডি
cad in Telugu
- సిఎడి
More languagesFewer languages
- cad in Malayalam
- സി. എ. ഡി, സിഎഡി, സി. എ. ഡിയിലേക്ക്
- cad in Kannada
- ಸಿಎಡಿ, ಸಿ. ಎ. ಡಿ, ಸಿಎಡಿಗೆ
- cad in Punjabi
- ਸੀ. ਏ. ਡੀ, ਕੈਡ
- cad in Gujarati
- સી. એ. ડી
- cad in Odia
- ସିଏଡି, ସି. ଏ. ଡି, କ୍ଯ଼ାଡ୍
- cad in Nepali
- क्याड
Synonyms of cad
Forms of cad
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cads |
| plural | CADs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cads |
| present participle | cadding |
| past participle | cadded |
| past | cadded |
Origin of cad
Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from Occitan capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).
Uncertain. Ferguson (1875) thought this to be of Celtic origin; possibly from a Cumbric equivalent to Welsh cydio (“to join, couple”).
Words formed from cad
Words that rhyme with cad
Questions about cad
- What does cad mean?
- Cad means a low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
- What is cad in Hindi?
- Cad in Hindi is सी. ए. डी, कैड, सीएडी. See Cad meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cad?
- Cad can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cad?
- Cad is pronounced /kæd/.
- What is the plural of cad?
- The plural of cad is cads.
Words near cad in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cad (page history and authors); CAD (page history and authors); cad (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cad (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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