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hidden

/ˈhɪd.(ə)n/

hidden is the past participle of hide.

Adjective

hidden (comparative more hidden, superlative most hidden)

  1. Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
    • hidden treasure; hidden talents
    • It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood.1892, James Yoxall, The Lonely Pyramid, chapter 7
  2. Obscure.

Meaning of hide

Verb (1)

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past hid, past participle hidden or (archaic) hid)

  1. (transitive) To put (something) in a place where it will be out of sight or harder to discover.
    • He hides his magazines under the bed.
  2. (intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be out of sight or harder to find.
    • You can run, but you can't hide!
    Synonyms:
    go undercover, hide away, hide out, lie low, hole up
    Antonyms:
    reveal, show

Verb (2)

hide (third-person singular simple present hides, present participle hiding, simple past and past participle hided)

  1. To beat with a whip made from hide.
    • He ran last week, and he was hided, and he was out on the day before yesterday, and here he is once more, and he knows he's got to run and to be hided again.1891, Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown, Riding

See all 10 meanings of hide

Noun

hidden (plural hiddens)

  1. (crosswording) A hidden answer clue; one in which the letters of the solution appear consecutively in the wordplay.
    • Hiddens are indicated thus; (e.g.) Grow (maraudinG ROWdies).1975, Games & Puzzles
    • The two types of clue which everyone should aim to solve at first reading are anagrams and hiddens.1987, The Listener

Proper noun capitalized: Hidden

Hidden

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of hidden

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Antonyms

Forms of hidden

Adjective
comparativemore hidden
superlativemost hidden
Noun
pluralhiddens

Origin of hidden

Morphologically hid + -en.

Words formed from hidden

Phrases with hidden

15 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with hidden

Questions about hidden

What does hidden mean?
Hidden means located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
What is hidden the past participle of?
Hidden is the past participle of hide.
What part of speech is hidden?
Hidden can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hidden?
Hidden is pronounced /ˈhɪd.(ə)n/.

Words near hidden in the dictionary

  1. hidation
  2. hidato
  3. hidatos
  4. Hidatsa
  5. Hidatsas
  6. hidden
  7. hidden agenda
  8. hidden agendas
  9. hidden asset
  10. hidden assets
  11. hidden away

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hidden (page history and authors); Hidden (page history and authors); hide (page history and authors). 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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