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Added 9 October 2026

het

/hɛt/ adjective

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

Made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated').
a heated swimming pool

Origin

From Middle English hette (simple past), het (past participle), from Old English hǣtte (simple past), (ġe)hǣted (past participle), conjugations of hǣtan (“to heat”); see heat (“to make hot”).

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