chad
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Chad¹
- /t͡ʃæd/ Australia, US, UK
- /t͡ʃad/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /t͡ʃɛd/ New Zealand
Sounds like chad · Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
From Middle English Chadde, from Old English Ċeadda, of obscure meaning; name of a seventh-century Anglo-Saxon saint, revived in the 20th century.
The sense of “alpha male” originates from an apparent stereotype that men with such a name tend to bear that temperament, first attested in c. late 1990s in Chicago, Illinois (specifically "successful white man, yuppie"), but in common usage only as of the late 2010s via 4chan and California slang.
proper noun
- A male given name from Old English; also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names. "What else? Anyway, here's the genealogy: Charles Junior's only son is Charles the Third - like royalty. He goes by Chip - Cassie's daddy. The mom is Cindy. The dead son was Chad - Charles the Fourth." "All Cs," I said. "Sounds like they like order."
- The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.
noun Chads · chad
- A very handsome, genetically gifted and sexually active man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group. They are united by the fact that women will not have sex with them, usually attributed to shallow obsessions with looks or superficial personality, and by their hatred of “Chads” and “Stacys”, the men and women who have sex.
Chad²
- /t͡ʃæd/ Australia, US, UK
- /t͡ʃad/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /t͡ʃɛd/ New Zealand
Sounds like chad · Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
Believed to be from Kanuri tsade (“lake”). The country is named after the lake.
proper noun Tchad
- A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad. Though foreigners did play some part in fighting as mercenaries for Gadhafi during the bloody Libyan war, the IOM and local leaders in Chad say the vast majority of Chadians, like Mohammed, were working to send remittances home.
- Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa).
chad³
- /t͡ʃæd/ Australia, US, UK
- /t͡ʃad/ British, Northern England, Scotland
- /t͡ʃɛd/ New Zealand
Sounds like Chad · Rhymes with -æd
Where it comes from
Uncertain; possibly from the English slang term chat (“louse”). The word predates the chadless punch, which therefore cannot be its origin, and a derivation from Scots chad (“river gravel”) stated in some dictionaries is now thought to be nothing more than guesswork.
noun chad · chads
- Small pieces of paper punched out from the edges of continuous stationery, or from ballot papers, paper tape, punched cards, etc. The keypunch wasn't named after a Mr. Chadless; it was so named because, as expected, it punched tape while producing little or no chad.
- One of these pieces of paper. Prior devices of the type according to the present invention have been arranged to cut out the perforations completely at a single movement, thereby producing chads or waste material which often present difficult problems of disposal.
chad⁴
Where it comes from
From ch- + had, from ich + had.
contraction
- I had Chad et in my meend, and zo chave still. Bet chawnt drow et out bevore tha begen'st agen, and than chell.
chad⁵
noun chads
- Alternative spelling of Chad (“alpha-male; a virile man”).
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: chadic, chadian, chadic language, tchad, monteiro, cyprus, tajikistan, libya, darfur, sudan, thailand, sweden, chili, togo, cameroon, mega
Translations
Every language
name country
| Español | Chad |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 차드 Chadeu |
| 日本語 | チャド Chado |
| 中文 | 乍得 Zhàdé |
| हिन्दी | चाड cāḍ |
| Kiswahili | Chadi |
| Português | Chade |
| Français | Tchad |
| Deutsch | Tschad |
| Italiano | Ciad |
| Ελληνικά | Τσαντ Tsant |
| Română | Ciad |
| Русский | Чад Čad |
| Tiếng Việt | Sát |
| العربية | تْشَاد tšād |
| עברית | צ׳אד chad |
noun small pieces of paper punched out
| 中文 | 打孔 dǎkǒng |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Stanzrest, Stanzabfall |
noun one of these pieces of paper
| 中文 | 孔屑 |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Stanzrest, Stanzabfall |
Talk about this word "chad." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/chad. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. chad. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/chad "chad." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/chad.Cite this
@misc{chad_2026,
title = {chad},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chad},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
