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hud

/hʌd/US/hʊd/

hud noun: a huck or hull, as of a nut.

Noun (1)

hud (plural huds)

  1. (UK, dialectal) A huck or hull, as of a nut.
    • Almondes[…]blanched or made cleane from their skinnes or huddes.1578, Henry Lyte, A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes

Noun (2) capitalized: HUD

HUD (plural HUDs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of head-up display.
    • An explosion just made us an exit! I'll mark it on your HUD, Chief, go!2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Cortana (Jen Taylor), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Cortana

Proper noun (1) capitalized: HUD

HUD

  1. (US, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Department of Housing and Urban Development
    • Folks were divided on whether to blame him or his wife for selling it to a developer cashing in on HUD money.2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 45
    • The request has added to worries among workers that HUD might be the next target for major downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a unit in the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.2025 February 11, Jennifer Ludden, “HUD is bracing as DOGE seeks to cut waste, fraud. Union leaders have a suggestion”, in w: NPR

Phrase capitalized: HUD

HUD

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of how you doing.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hud

IPA/huːd/

Hud

  1. A prophet of Islam, sometimes identified with Eber in the Bible
  2. The eleventh sura of the Qur'an.
  3. name in Arabic.

hud meaning in Marathi, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam

hud in Marathi

हुद

hud in Bengali

হুদ, হুড়

hud in Telugu

హుద్

hud in Malayalam

ഹുദ്
More languagesFewer languages
hud in Kannada
ಹುದ್
hud in Gujarati
હુદ
hud in Odia
ହୁଦ୍
hud in Nepali
हुद

Forms of hud

pluralhuds
pluralHUDs

Origin of hud

Compare hood (“a covering”).

From Arabic هُود (hūd).

Words formed from hud

  • HUDless

Words that rhyme with hud

15 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about hud

What does hud mean?
Hud means a huck or hull, as of a nut.
What is hud in Marathi?
Hud in Marathi is हुद. See Hud meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is hud?
Hud can be a noun, a proper noun or a phrase.
How do you pronounce hud?
Hud is pronounced /hʌd/.
What is the plural of hud?
The plural of hud is huds.

Words near hud in the dictionary

  1. huckstress
  2. huckstresses
  3. hucow
  4. hucows
  5. hucs
  6. hud
  7. Huda
  8. Hudak
  9. Hudaks
  10. hudd
  11. Huddart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hud (page history and authors); HUD (page history and authors); Hud (page history and authors); hud (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hud (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hud (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hud (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hud (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hud (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hud (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hud (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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