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Meaning of "hood" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HOOD

Old English hōd; related to Old High German huot hat, Middle Dutch hoet, Latin cassis helmet.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HOOD

hood  [hʊd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOOD

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hood is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb hood in English.

WHAT DOES HOOD MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hood in the English dictionary

The first definition of hood in the dictionary is a loose head covering either attached to a cloak or coat or made as a separate garment. Other definition of hood is something resembling this in shape or use. Hood is also the folding roof of a convertible car.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO HOOD

PRESENT

Present
I hood
you hood
he/she/it hoods
we hood
you hood
they hood
Present continuous
I am hooding
you are hooding
he/she/it is hooding
we are hooding
you are hooding
they are hooding
Present perfect
I have hooded
you have hooded
he/she/it has hooded
we have hooded
you have hooded
they have hooded
Present perfect continuous
I have been hooding
you have been hooding
he/she/it has been hooding
we have been hooding
you have been hooding
they have been hooding
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 hooded
you hooded
he/she/it hooded
we hooded
you hooded
they hooded
Past continuous
I was hooding
you were hooding
he/she/it was hooding
we were hooding
you were hooding
they were hooding
Past perfect
I had hooded
you had hooded
he/she/it had hooded
we had hooded
you had hooded
they had hooded
Past perfect continuous
I had been hooding
you had been hooding
he/she/it had been hooding
we had been hooding
you had been hooding
they had been hooding
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

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

CONDITIONAL

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

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you hood
we let´s hood
you hood
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to hood
Past participle
hooded
Present Participle
hooding
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 BEGIN LIKE HOOD

hoochie
hood mould
hood rat
hooded
hooded crow
hooded seal
hoodia
hoodie
hoodie crow
hoodless
hoodlike
hoodlum
hoodlumish
hoodlumism
hoodman
hoodman-blind
hoodmold
hoodoo
hoodooism
hoodwink

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOOD

blood
Bollywood
childhood
fast food
fast-food
flood
food
for good
from the wood
good
hardwood
Hollywood
mood
neighborhood
out of the wood
seafood
stood
the blood
understood
wood

Synonyms and antonyms of hood in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HOOD»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hood» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hood
cap · cover · cowl · scarf · snood

Translation of «hood» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOOD

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

Translator English - Chinese

兜帽
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

capucha
570 millions of speakers

English

hood
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

हुड
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قَلُنْسُوَة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

капюшон
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

capuz
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hoochie
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

capuche
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hoochie
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Kapuze
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フード
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

두건
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hoochie
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mũ trùm đầu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hoochie
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हूची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hoochie
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cappuccio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kaptur
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

каптур
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

glugă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κουκούλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

huva
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hette
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hood

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOOD»

The term «hood» is very widely used and occupies the 1.912 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOOD» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hood» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hood» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «HOOD»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hood.
1
Michael Behe
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.
2
John Boyega
There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.
3
Young Buck
I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
4
Ryan Coogler
Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, which they spent on our education to send us to Catholic private school in Oakland, mostly black. The other kids had more money than I did. I started school early; I was young. So I'd come back to my hood and read.
5
Ice Cube
There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
6
Mike Davidson
We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.
7
Snoop Dogg
What people don't understand is joining a gang ain't bad, it's cool, it's fine. When you in the hood, joining a gang it's cool because all your friends are in the gang, all your family's in the gang. We're not just killing people every night, we're just hanging out, having a good time.
8
Snoop Dogg
The 'American Idol' and 'X Factor' shows, they're great shows. But I think I need to make a show like that, directed straight to the hood, to the artists that don't get the attention, that don't have the money to make themselves representable.
9
Roma Downey
Extraordinarily, I was up in the cemetery in Derry City, and I had a red cape on with a fur hood as a little girl, when a gun battle broke out between the IRA and the British Army, and I got caught in the crossfire.
10
Helen Dunmore
I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOOD»

Discover the use of hood in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hood and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hood: An Urban Erotic Tale
Because your real enemies ain't aiming at your back. They lunging straight for your heart. Ya dig? Lamont "Hood" Mason is a fearless nineteen-year-old gangsta who was born and raised in the projects of Brooklyn, New York.
Noire, 2007
2
There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
In this revealing book, Lance Freeman sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: how does gentrification actually affect residents of neighborhoods in transition? To find out, Freeman does what no scholar before him has done.
Lance Freeman, 2011
3
Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
In Cop in the Hood, Moskos reveals the truths he learned on the midnight shift.
Peter Moskos, 2009
4
Girls from the Hood Two
A harsh account of life in the projects brings the reader into the lives of three young women, who all, by different unfortunate means, are connected to each other by one man. Reprint.
Joy, Kashamba Williams, Nikki Turner, 2008
5
The Trials & Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
Presents the many faces of Little Red Riding Hood. Bringing together 35 of the best versions of the tale, from the Brothers Grimm to Anne Sexton, the author uses the tales to explore questions of Western culture, sexism and politics.
Jack Zipes, 1993
6
Hood: The King Raven Trilogy -
Robin Hood The Legend Begins Anew For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and his band of thieves has captivated the imagination. Now the familiar tale takes on new life, fresh meaning, and an unexpected setting.
Stephen Lawhead, 2008
7
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
DIVFocuses on the socially relevant aspects of Hip Hop music: its treatment of the identity of the black subject in a white society, new definitions of blackness and its commercialization./div ""Prophets of the Hood" is the most ...
Imani Perry, 2004
8
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the ...
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Red appears as seductress, hapless victim, riot grrrrl, femme fatale, and even she-wolf, as Orenstein shows how through centuries of different guises, the story has served as a barometer of social and ...
Catherine Orenstein, 2008
9
Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook
The twelve essays are by international scholars representing an impressive cross section of theoretical approaches."--p. [4] of cover.
Alan Dundes, 1989
10
Honestly, Red Riding Hood Was Rotten!: The Story of Little ...
Introduces the concept of point of view through Big Bad Wolf's retelling of the classic fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood."
Trisha Speed Shaskan, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOOD»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hood is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Jamie Hood frustrated by legal proceedings - 11Alive
Hood, who with no formal legal training is acting as his own attorney, has often been stopped mid-sentence by objection from the district ... «WXIA-TV, Jul 15»
2
Denver's Robrock, Sanders & Cottam win on night 2 of Mt Hood
A trio of Denver Hilltoppers won individual event titles on the second night of action at the 2015 Mt. Hood Speedo Sectional. Stock Photo via ... «SwimSwam, Jul 15»
3
Q&A: Utah's Rodney Hood promises to be a lethal weapon …
LAS VEGAS -- Big things are coming for Rodney Hood. The Utah Jazz guard started his rookie year slowly because of a left foot injury, but ... «CBSSports.com, Jul 15»
4
Fort Salem Theater's 'Red Riding Hood' takes new look at fairy tale …
Take your pick. Which would you rather see onstage: "Little Red Riding Hood," or "A Feminist Ecological Musical"? Jay Kerr, the lively director, ... «Albany Times Union, Jul 15»
5
Soldier Dies in Hunting-Related Crash Near Fort Hood | Military.com
BANGOR, Maine -- A soldier from Surry died last week after the pickup truck he was riding in crashed while taking him to the hospital for ... «Military.com, Jul 15»
6
Status Ain't Hood: Drake, Rap's Leading Curator - Stereogum
This past weekend, I was driving my family back from the beach, where we'd been on vacation, and I had to contend with Maryland's Bay ... «Stereogum, Jul 15»
7
THE INSIDER: PAC takes cudgel to grammar in lively hood
THE INSIDER: PAC takes cudgel to grammar in lively hood ... there media and IEC are concerned about the lively hood of the PAC they should ... «BDlive, Jul 15»
8
Operation warbler: How Fort Hood and local ranchers teamed up to …
Another nearby stronghold for the bird is the Fort Hood Army Base, only a few miles down the road from Gene's ranch and home to the ... «Environmental Defense Fund, Jul 15»
9
SDCC '15: The Dark Circle Comics Panel - The Fox, Black Hood
IMG_0879 Midday Saturday Archie Comics held its Dark Circle Comics panel to discuss a few of the superhero properties, and characters, that ... «Bleeding Cool News, Jul 15»
10
Under the Hood: Danica struggles with temper, stock car racing …
Danica Patrick has had a tough season so far, sitting 22nd in the series standings with just two top-10 finishes. Buy this photo. View all 2 ... «Independent Tribune, Jul 15»

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