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hideaway

/ˈhaɪdəˌweɪ/

hideaway noun: a hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away from other people.

Noun

hideaway (plural hideaways)

  1. a hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away from other people
    • This weekend, let's find some romantic hideaway on the coast.

Adjective

hideaway (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being stored out of sight when not in use.
    • Furnishings by Stanley Furniture Co. include […] a trundle bed with hideaway mattress that provides space for two overnight guests.1980, Making of America Project, House Beautiful: Volume 122
    • Thomas Jefferson, who held the first United States patent on a hideaway bed, devised a system of elevating and securing the bed to the ceiling.2006, Dr Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw, page 53

hideaway meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

hideaway in Urdu

hideaway
شرن śaran

hideaway in Malayalam

refuge, retreat, hiding place
ഒളിസ്ഥലം, ഏകാന്തസ്ഥാനം, ഒളി, ഒളിതാവളം, നീഡം, മാളം

hideaway in Kannada

ಮರೆದಾಣ, ಅಡಗಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ಸ್ಥಳ, ಅಮಿತುಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ಜಾಗ, ಗುಪ್ತ ಸ್ಥಳ, ಏಕಾಂತದ ಜಾಗ

Forms of hideaway

pluralhideaways

Plural of hideaway: hideaways

Origin of hideaway

From hide + away.

Questions about hideaway

What does hideaway mean?
Hideaway means a hiding place, somewhere one can go to get away from other people.
What is hideaway in Urdu?
Hideaway in Urdu is شرن (śaran). See Hideaway meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is hideaway?
Hideaway can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce hideaway?
Hideaway is pronounced /ˈhaɪdəˌweɪ/ (US).
What is the plural of hideaway?
The plural of hideaway is hideaways.

Words near hideaway in the dictionary

  1. hide-outs
  2. hide-rope
  3. hide-ropes
  4. hideability
  5. hideable
  6. hideaway
  7. hideaways
  8. hidebehind
  9. hidebehinds
  10. hidebound
  11. hideboundness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hideaway (page history and authors); شرن (Urdu) (page history and authors); hideaway (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hideaway (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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