Chad — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A male given name from Old English; also a modern nickname for Charles, Chadwick and similar-sounding names.

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   "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."

   'He used to be called Trevor Buss.' 'Chad? I don't believe you.' […] 'He changed his name into Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah.' 'No!' 'He'd insist on the whole name. He played football and his mates got fed up saying, "Pass the ball, Muhammad Shahabuddin Ali-Shah" […] No one passed to him. So he became Chad.'

   The scene gave the company’s president, Chad Hartmann, a glimmer of hope amid the chaos that ensued after Tuesday's raid purged roughly half of his staff — many of whom had been longtime employees of the company, which has been processing boxed beef for more than 15 years.

2. The British version of the "Kilroy was here" graffiti.

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   • UK usage

Noun

1. A very handsome, genetically gifted and sexually active man whom women find sexually attractive; at times seen as an alpha male of a group.

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   • Internet

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   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.

   Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.

Proper noun

1. A country in Central Africa. Official name: Republic of Chad.

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   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.

2. Lake Chad (a freshwater lake at the junction of Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon in Central Africa).

   Related words

   Chad BasinLake ChadCountries of the world

   Broader terms

   Subsahara

Noun

1. a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

   Synonyms

   ChadicChadic language

   Broader terms

   AfroasiaticAfro-AsiaticAfroasiatic languageAfrasianAfrasian languageHamito-Semitic