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tad

/tæd/

tad noun: a small amount; a little bit.

Noun (1)

tad (plural tads)

  1. (informal) A small amount; a little bit.
    • Could you lean the picture to the left just a tad more?
  2. (US, dated, slang) A street boy; an urchin.

Noun (2) capitalized: TAD

TAD (countable and uncountable, plural TADs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of tobacco, alcohol and drugs.
  2. (abbreviation, countable, initialism) Initialism of transboundary animal disease.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Tad

Tad

  1. A diminutive of the male given name Thaddeus or Thaddaeus.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Tad

Tad

  1. (UK, colloquial) Tadcaster.
    • There's a new pub opening in Tad next week.

Verb capitalized: TAd

TAd

  1. (participle, past) simple past and past participle of TA

tad meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

tad in Hindi

टी. ए. डी

tad in Marathi

टाड, टड

tad in Urdu

تاد

tad in Bengali

টাড, ট্যাড
More languagesFewer languages
tad in Telugu
కాస్త kāsta, కాస్తంత kāstanta, కొద్దిగా koddigā
tad in Malayalam
ടാഡ്
tad in Punjabi
ਟੀ. ਏ. ਡੀ
tad in Gujarati
ટાડ
tad in Odia
ଟାଡ
tad in Nepali
टाड

Examples of tad in a sentence

  • But this gig might be a tad more complicated than he had figured.
  • “It is . . . a tad macabre, don’t you think?” “Not at all.
  • A colourful, bouncy, groovesome platformy sort of thing that's a tad too hard for its own good.

All 19 example sentences with tad

Synonyms of tad

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All synonyms of tad

Forms of tad

pluraltads
pluralTADs

Origin of tad

1877, ‘young or small child’, probably a shortened form of tadpole. The extended meaning ‘small amount’ is first recorded 1915.

Words formed from tad

Words that rhyme with tad

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Questions about tad

What does tad mean?
Tad means a small amount; a little bit.
What is tad in Hindi?
Tad in Hindi is टी. ए. डी. See Tad meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is tad?
Tad can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce tad?
Tad is pronounced /tæd/.
What is the plural of tad?
The plural of tad is tads.

Words near tad in the dictionary

  1. Tacurong
  2. Tacy
  3. Tacys
  4. Taczanowski's tinamou
  5. Taczanowski's tinamous
  6. tad
  7. tada
  8. tadago-pie
  9. tadago-pies
  10. tadalafil
  11. tadasana

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tad (page history and authors); TAD (page history and authors); Tad (page history and authors); TAd (page history and authors); tad (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tad (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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