English Online Dictionary. What means lid? What does lid mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪd/
- Rhymes: -ɪd
Noun
lid (plural lids)
- The top or cover of a container.
- (slang) A cap or hat.
- (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
- (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
- (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
- Clipping of eyelid.
- (microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
- (figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
- (Liverpool) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)
- (transitive) To put a lid on (something).
- Antonym: unlid
Derived terms
- unlid
Translations
Anagrams
- -dil, -dil-, DIL, DLI, IDL, dil-
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch lid.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lət]
Noun
lid (plural lede, diminutive lidjie)
- member (of a group or club)
- member, limb
Derived terms
- lidmaat
Czech
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ľudъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɪt]
Noun
lid m inan
- people
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “lid”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “lid”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “lid”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse hlít.
Noun
lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)
- trust
Verb
lid
- imperative of lide
Further reading
- “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪt/
- Hyphenation: lid
- Rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
Noun
lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n or ledeken n)
- member (of a group)
- Synonym: lidmaat
- member, limb (extremity of a body)
- Synonym: ledemaat
- member, penis
- Synonym: penis
- (law) paragraph, subsection (legislative drafting)
- (obsolete, grammar) article, particularly in the Southern diminutive form ledeken [from late 16th c.]
- Synonyms: lidwoord, voorlid
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: lid
- → Indonesian: lid
- Negerhollands: lid, leden, leeden
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Noun
lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje n)
- (rare) lid, cover
Derived terms
- ooglid
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch lid (“member”), from Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɪt]
- Hyphenation: lid
Noun
lid (first-person possessive lidku, second-person possessive lidmu, third-person possessive lidnya)
- (colloquial) member (of a group).
- Synonym: anggota
Further reading
- “lid” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English
Alternative forms
- lyd, lidde, lidd, lydde
Etymology
From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lid/
Noun
lid (plural liddis)
- A lid; a piece of material used to cover a container.
- The exterior of a gravesite, ditch, or pit.
- The covering over one's eyes; an eyelid.
- (rare) The top layer of a pastry dish.
Descendants
- English: lid
- Scots: lid
References
- “lid, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-29.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
lid
- imperative of lide
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- lir, lider
Verb
lid
- present tense of lide
- imperative of lide
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /liː/
- (Sunnmøre) IPA(key): /liːd/
Noun
lid f (plural lidi)
- (pre-1917 or dialectal) a sloping mountainside or hillside covered with grass or forest. Alternative form of li.
Old English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lid/
Noun
lid n
- ship, vessel
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:sċip
Derived terms
- lida
- lidmann
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *liþuz, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.
Noun
lid ?
- member
Descendants
- Middle High German: lit
- Alemannic German: Lid
- German: Lied
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish, from Latin lītem (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlid/ [ˈlið̞]
- Rhymes: -id
- Syllabification: lid
Noun
lid f (plural lides)
- lawsuit
- Synonym: litigio
- fight
- Synonym: lucha
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “lid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Swedish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish liþ, from Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīdō. Cognate of Latin clīvus, Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma), Old English hliþ.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːd
Noun
lid c
- A slope of a hill.
Declension
Verb
lid
- imperative of lida
Further reading
- lid in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
Volapük
Etymology
From German Lied.
Noun
lid (nominative plural lids)
- song
Declension
Welsh
Noun
lid
- Soft mutation of llid.
Mutation
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪt/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *liþuz. The plural leden is from Dutch.
Noun
lid n (plural lidden or lea, diminutive lidsje)
- limb, member (of the body)
- penis
- part (of a whole)
Usage notes
- The plural lea occurs only in sense 1 and usually in a collective sense, i.e. referring to all of a person’s limbs.
Noun
lid n (plural leden)
- member (of a group)
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *hlidą.
Noun
lid n (plural lidden, diminutive lidsje)
- lid, cover
- Short for eachlid (“eyelid”).