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Added 9 October 2026

hatch

/hæt͡ʃ/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about hatch at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

The production of young from an egg.
Shading consisting of multiple crossing lines.
A sloping rear car door that is lifted to open.

verb

Emerge from the eggs.
young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch
Devise or invent.
He thought up a plan to get rich quickly
Inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating.

Origin

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

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