Clad
/klæd/
adjectiveBeginner📊CommonGeneral
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Definitions
1
dressed or covered
/klæd/
adjectiveneutralBeginner
General
Wearing or covered with clothing.
The hiker was clad in warm layers.
💡 Simply: Imagine someone bundled up for winter—that's 'clad'! It means 'wearing clothes' or 'covered in something'. Like, 'The mountain was clad in snow.'
👶 For kids: Wearing clothes.
More Examples
2
The castle was clad in stone.
How It's Used
General
"He was clad in a heavy winter coat."
From Old English *clǣd, past participle of *clǣðian "to clothe", from Proto-Germanic *klaþ- "cloth".
Historically, 'clad' was more commonly used in literary contexts and descriptions of formal attire.
Memory tip
Think of 'clad' as 'clothed' in a slightly more formal way.
Word Origin
Original meaning
"to clothe"
clad in armorclad in stoneclad in snow
Common misspellings
claddclaed
Practice
Usage
20%Spoken
80%Written