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hood

UK/hʊd/[hʊ̈d]

hood noun: a head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.

Noun (1)

hood (plural hoods)

  1. A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
  2. A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.
    Synonyms:
    blinder
  3. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
  4. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
  5. (UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
  6. (Canada, US) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
    Synonyms:
    cowl, motorhood, bonnet
  7. (broadly, especially) A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
    • Like many captains, I was just as glad to leave engineering to the engineers. Looking under the ship's hood wasn't what interested me.2004, D. Michael Abrashoff, Get Your Ship Together: How Great Leaders Inspire Ownership From The Keel Up, Penguin, →ISBN
    • I never see the pilot percolating coffee or the attendant with a screwdriver under the airplane's hood. Why? Because we all have something we are good at, and we are expected to do that one thing well.2015, Max Lucado, Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 71
  8. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
  9. One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
    • Care must also be taken to place the tenons on the main post so that a stop-water can be driven between it and the fore tenon and the rabbet of the hoods at the keel. The post being dressed to its proper dimensions, the tenons cut, and their ...1830, A Treatise on Marine Architecture, page 260
    • The fore hoods end at a rabbet cut in the wood stem (see Plate CXVIII.), and the after hoods end at a rabbet prepared in the yellow metal body post. The fore hoods are fastened to the bottom plating as elsewhere; but in the stem they have ...1874, Samuel James P. Thearle, Naval architecture: a treatise on laying off and building wood, iron, and composite ships. [With] Plates, page 360
  10. An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
  11. (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
    • Platysma myoides […] which sends attenuated fibres and slips to the gular region of the hood and is lost dorsad in the fascia covering the trapezius but acquires thickness over the sternum and cervix. Thyromandibularis […] Two distinct muscles may bear this name, an externus and an internus. The...1883, Charles W. De Vis, “Myology of Chlamydosaurus kingii”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 8, pages 301–302
    Synonyms:
    frill
  12. In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
  13. (colloquial) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.

Verb

hood (third-person singular simple present hoods, present participle hooding, simple past and past participle hooded)

  1. (transitive) To cover (something) with a hood.
    Antonyms:
    unhood
  2. (transitive) To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
  3. (intransitive) To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

Noun (2)

hood (plural hoods)

  1. (slang) Gangster, thug.
    • Teen-age hoods steal cars in cities, take them into the pines, strip them, ignite them, and leave the scene.1968, John McPhee, chapter 7, in The Pine Barrens

Adjective

hood (not comparable)

  1. Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.

Noun (3)

hood (plural hoods)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A neighborhood.
    • What’s goin’ down in the hood?
    • Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors / Just animals surviving with that animal behavior1996, “Stakes is High”, in Stakes Is High, performed by De La Soul
  2. (slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.
    Synonyms:
    ghetto, shithole

Noun (4)

hood (plural hoods)

  1. (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.

Proper noun capitalized: Hood

Hood (countable and uncountable, plural Hoods)

  1. A surname.
    • Last month, Fort Hood in Texas, another major military installation, was redesignated Fort Cavazos, in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars who became the first Hispanic person to wear four stars on his uniform.2023 June 2, Kaanita Iyer, “US Army renames Fort Bragg as Fort Liberty”, in CNN
  2. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia, United States.
  4. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Hood County.
  5. (abbreviation, ellipsis) Ellipsis of Hood River.

hood meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hood in Hindi

covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak
हुड huḍ

hood in Tamil

ஹூட், ஹூட் செய்ய

hood in Marathi

हुड, हुड करण्यासाठी

hood in Urdu

covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak
ہُڈ huḍ
More languagesFewer languages
hood in Bengali
হুড, হুড করতে
hood in Telugu
హుడ్
hood in Malayalam
ഹുഡ്
hood in Kannada
ಹುಡ್, ಹೂಡ್
hood in Punjabi
ਹੁੱਡ, ਹੂਡ, ਹੁੱਡ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
hood in Gujarati
હૂડ
hood in Odia
ହୁଡ୍, ହଡ୍, ହୁଡ୍ କରିବା ପାଇଁ
hood in Sanskrit
फणा phaṇā
hood in Nepali
हुड, हुड गर्न
hood in Arabic
قَلَنْسُوَة qalansuwa, غِطَاء اَلْمُحَرِّك ḡiṭāʔ al-muḥarrik
hood in Malay
serkup, bonet
hood in Indonesian
kap
hood in Thai
กระโปรง grà-bproong
hood in Vietnamese
ca pô

Examples of hood in a sentence

  • But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]1940, Lauchlan McKay, Richard Cornelius McKay, The Practical hip-builder, page 62:
  • Platysma myoides […] which sends attenuated fibres and slips to the gular region of the hood and is lost dorsad in the fascia covering the trapezius but acquires thickness over the sternum and cervix.1883, Charles W. De Vis, “Myology of Chlamydosaurus kingii”, in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, volume 8, pages...

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Synonyms of hood

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of hood

Forms of hood

Noun
pluralhoods
Verb
third-person singular presenthoods
present participlehooding
past participlehooded
pasthooded
Adjective
alternative form'hood
Proper noun
pluralHoods

Past tense of hood: hooded

Plural of hood: hoods

Origin of hood

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). See also Saterland Frisian Houd (“hat; hood”), West Frisian and Dutch hoed (“hat”), Cimbrian huat, huut (“hat”), German Hut (“hat”), German Low German Hood (“hat; hood”), Luxembourgish Hutt (“hat”); also Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /⁠xaudā⁠/)). More at hat.

Clipping of hoodlum.

Clipping of neighborhood; compare nabe.

Words formed from hood

Phrases with hood

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Words that rhyme with hood

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Questions about hood

What does hood mean?
Hood means a head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.
What is hood in Hindi?
Hood in Hindi is हुड (huḍ). See Hood meaning in Hindi.
How do you use hood in a sentence?
But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]
What part of speech is hood?
Hood can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hood?
Hood is pronounced /hʊd/ (UK).
What is the plural of hood?
The plural of hood is hoods.

Words near hood in the dictionary

  1. hoochy-coochies
  2. hoochy-coochy
  3. hoochy-koochies
  4. hoochy-koochy
  5. Hoocąk
  6. hood
  7. Hood County
  8. hood ornament
  9. hood ornaments
  10. hood rat
  11. hood ratish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hood (page history and authors); Hood (page history and authors); hood (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hood (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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