cade
/keɪd/adjective, noun, verb
cade is an adjective meaning “abandoned by its mother and reared by hand” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-D-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 1 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cade mean?
adjective
- 1
abandoned by its mother and reared by hand
noun
- 1
An animal brought up or nourished by hand.
- 2
Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
- 3
archaicA cask or barrel.
A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
verb
- 1
To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cade?
- /keɪd/
Cade has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cade.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cade
- cades plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cading participle, present
- caded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cade?
Cade appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does cade come from?
From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).