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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
Jack Davenport

Meaning of "hobnobbed" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOBNOBBED

hobnobbed  [ˈhɒbˌnɒbd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOBNOBBED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hobnobbed is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hobnobbed in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HOBNOBBED

PRESENT

Present
I hobnob
you hobnob
he/she/it hobnobs
we hobnob
you hobnob
they hobnob
Present continuous
I am hobnobbing
you are hobnobbing
he/she/it is hobnobbing
we are hobnobbing
you are hobnobbing
they are hobnobbing
Present perfect
I have hobnobbed
you have hobnobbed
he/she/it has hobnobbed
we have hobnobbed
you have hobnobbed
they have hobnobbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been hobnobbing
you have been hobnobbing
he/she/it has been hobnobbing
we have been hobnobbing
you have been hobnobbing
they have been hobnobbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I hobnobbed
you hobnobbed
he/she/it hobnobbed
we hobnobbed
you hobnobbed
they hobnobbed
Past continuous
I was hobnobbing
you were hobnobbing
he/she/it was hobnobbing
we were hobnobbing
you were hobnobbing
they were hobnobbing
Past perfect
I had hobnobbed
you had hobnobbed
he/she/it had hobnobbed
we had hobnobbed
you had hobnobbed
they had hobnobbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been hobnobbing
you had been hobnobbing
he/she/it had been hobnobbing
we had been hobnobbing
you had been hobnobbing
they had been hobnobbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will hobnob
you will hobnob
he/she/it will hobnob
we will hobnob
you will hobnob
they will hobnob
Future continuous
I will be hobnobbing
you will be hobnobbing
he/she/it will be hobnobbing
we will be hobnobbing
you will be hobnobbing
they will be hobnobbing
Future perfect
I will have hobnobbed
you will have hobnobbed
he/she/it will have hobnobbed
we will have hobnobbed
you will have hobnobbed
they will have hobnobbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been hobnobbing
you will have been hobnobbing
he/she/it will have been hobnobbing
we will have been hobnobbing
you will have been hobnobbing
they will have been hobnobbing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would hobnobbed
you would hobnobbed
he/she/it would hobnobbed
we would hobnobbed
you would hobnobbed
they would hobnobbed
Conditional continuous
I would be hobnobbing
you would be hobnobbing
he/she/it would be hobnobbing
we would be hobnobbing
you would be hobnobbing
they would be hobnobbing
Conditional perfect
I would have hobnobbed
you would have hobnobbed
he/she/it would have hobnobbed
we would have hobnobbed
you would have hobnobbed
they would have hobnobbed
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been hobnobbing
you would have been hobnobbing
he/she/it would have been hobnobbing
we would have been hobnobbing
you would have been hobnobbing
they would have been hobnobbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you hobnob
we let´s hobnob
you hobnob
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hobnob
Past participle
hobnobbed
Present Participle
hobnobbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOBNOBBED


bobbed
bɒbd
demobbed
diːˈmɒbd
dobbed
dɒbd
emu-bobbed
ˈiːmjuːˌbɒbd
hobbed
hɒbd
jobbed
dʒɒbd
knobbed
nɒbd
lobbed
lɒbd
robbed
rɒbd
sobbed
sɒbd
swobbed
swɒbd
unbobbed
ʌnˈbɒbd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOBNOBBED

hobbyless
hobday
hobdayed
hobgoblin
hobgoblinism
hobgoblinry
hoblike
hobnail
hobnail boot
hobnailed
hobnailed boot
hobnob
hobnobber
hobnobbing
hobnobby
hobo
hobodom
hoboism
Hoboken
hobson-jobson

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOBNOBBED

blobbed
cobbed
dabbed
dubbed
flobbed
fobbed
gobbed
grabbed
mobbed
nabbed
ribbed
rubbed
scrubbed
slabbed
snubbed
stabbed
subbed
tabbed
throbbed
webbed

Synonyms and antonyms of hobnobbed in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HOBNOBBED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hobnobbed» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hobnobbed

Translation of «hobnobbed» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOBNOBBED

Find out the translation of hobnobbed to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hobnobbed from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hobnobbed» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hobnobbed
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

codeó
570 millions of speakers

English

hobnobbed
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hobnobbed
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

hobnobbed
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

якшался
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hobnobbed
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hobnobbed
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fraternisaient
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hobnobbed
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

verkehrte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

hobnobbed
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hobnobbed
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hobnobbed
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hobnobbed
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குலாவி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हॉबनोबेड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

samimi ilişkiler içine girdiler
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

in confidenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hobnobbed
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

водився
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prieten intim
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hobnobbed
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hobnobbed
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hobnobbed
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hobnobbed
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hobnobbed

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOBNOBBED»

The term «hobnobbed» is normally little used and occupies the 141.389 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOBNOBBED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hobnobbed

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QUOTES WITH «HOBNOBBED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hobnobbed.
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Jack Davenport
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOBNOBBED»

Discover the use of hobnobbed in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hobnobbed and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Collected Black Women's Poetry
hobnobbed. with. Joaquin. Miller,. fo^g*. Sterling. Ward, Bret Harte, and Mark Twain; in London, her poems impressed the Rossetti brothers, and she dedicated her only book of poetry, Infelicia, to Charles Dickens. Georges Sand, her close ...
Joan R. Sherman, 1988
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New York Magazine
hobnobbed. with. educated. people..." ". . .Lazar couldn't be real, his friends often said. One and only: When Lazar married Mary, his social cachet improved. Waiting: Organ transplants would give 650 New Yorkers a new. the memoirs he has ...
3
Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families
Who better to yoke the sacred, agrarian arts of stewardship, husbandry, and parenting than writer-philosopher-farmer-conservationist-minister-educator-public benefactor extraordinaire Uncle Henry Wallace, the man who planted the seeds of ...
Henry Wallace, Zachary Michael Jack, 2008
4
Milwaukee's Soldiers Home
In Out at the Soldiers' Home: A Memory Book, she observed that many old soldiers led a solitary existence, even when they wandered together in great numbers, as pictured below. In the beer hall, however, they “hobnobbed with one another ...
Patricia A. Lynch, 2013
5
A History of Cornell
He who had hobnobbed with England's rulers now hobnobbed as readily, and evidently as happily, with self- made scholars reared on frontier farms. Goldwin Smith was a singularly genuine person, devoid of affectation; he recognized the ...
‎1962
6
Fairly Odd Mother: Musings of a Slightly Off Southern Mom
I have hobnobbed with the rich and famous. Well, not hobnobbed so much as gawked at the rich and famous. Well, not gawked at the rich and famous so much as gawked at their locked gates and eight-foot tall hedges but there's no need to  ...
Kelly Kazek, 2009
7
Alice Nielsen and the Gayety of Nations
I held this over him later when he taught me the role of Juliet in French, and complained that I was slow in learning it.” Nielsen revealed she and Edward “ hobnobbed on many occasions” without giving detail of the “many occasions.” What did ...
Dall Wilson, 2008
8
Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans' Welfare ...
Elizabeth Corbett remembered that the "old soldiers hobnobbed with each other in the canteen — and they never hobnobbed anywhere else. On a summer afternoon the drone of their conversation filled the whole neighborhood of the canteen ...
Patrick J. Kelly, 1997
9
Party Politics
It was essentially a part of the landed interest, from the bishops who hobnobbed with the peers to the country parsons who hobnobbed with the squires. Because of its dependence on tithe and patronage it could not, as an organised body, ...
Ivor Jennings, 1962
10
Jazz: The First 100 Years
He projected a macho persona—the girl-chasing, booze-loving tough guy who hobnobbed not only with the elite Kennedy family but also with gangsters. Nonetheless, much of Sinatra's work from the 1950s and 1960s captured the essence of ...
Henry Martin, Keith Waters, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOBNOBBED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hobnobbed is used in the context of the following news items.
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'High School Musical 3′ Actor Arrested In Dorchester Shootout …
He appears alongside Zac Efron in High School Musical 3, and has hobnobbed with the likes of Denzel Washington and Robert Downey Jr. «CBS Local, Jul 15»
2
gulftoday.ae | BCCI under pressure as fixing-marred Indian Premier …
... son-in-law Meiyappan and trusted aide and tournament COO Sundar Raman, hobnobbed with shady punters and clandestine bookmakers, ... «Gulf Today, Jul 15»
3
Gopal continues to shine in SA
He recently had a chance to showcase his talents when he hobnobbed with South Africa's best actors and actresses on the huge Generations ... «NewsDay, Jul 15»
4
The identity blues of the SLFP
Ranatunga subsequently hobnobbed with the likes of Mangala Samaraweera, Sripathi Sooriyarachchi, and Tiran Alles in the (pro-Chandrika) ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
5
Henry Pedris 100 years on
Pedris hobnobbed with the British aristocracy, yes. But he was also a bit of a paradox. What's the bigger picture? He came from the urban ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
6
Sportsday - football transfer news
After breakfast with royalty, there was a trip to 10 Downing Street as England hobnobbed with the great and the good following their Women's ... «BBC Sport, Jul 15»
7
Summer of '69 and beyond
Tiber has done it all: organized Woodstock, crossed the Mafia, hobnobbed with celebs, made movies, appeared on TV, the list goes on and on. «Washington Blade, Jul 15»
8
Atlanta United FC officially unveil name, logo
... already signed up to purchase season tickets — sipped on beer, gobbled up tacos, and hobnobbed in the packed-to-capacity SOHO Lounge, ... «Creative Loafing Atlanta, Jul 15»
9
Narendra Modi's Secret Weapon
But he's hobnobbed with prime ministers — of Norway, Fiji, Bangladesh. What Jolly does represent is an emerging version of deeply nationalist ... «OZY, Jul 15»
10
Rocker Andrew Matheson fought Freddie Mercury, hung with Cliff …
He was the singer who punched Freddie Mercury, hobnobbed with Sir Cliff Richard, and was courted by Malcolm McLaren before he signed ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»

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