# hidden

Pronunciation: say "HID-uhn" /ˈhɪd(ə)n/

## Adjective

1. Placed or positioned out of sight; not able to be seen.
   - Simple: Put or kept somewhere so it cannot be seen.
   - _A hidden camera recorded everyone who entered the lobby._
   - _The treasure stayed hidden for centuries beneath the old church._
2. Not readily apparent or understood; obscure.
   - Simple: Not easy to see or understand at first.
   - _Scholars debated the hidden significance of the ancient inscription._
   - _Her remark carried a hidden criticism beneath its polite tone._

## Verb

3. Past participle of hide. — past participle of hide
   - Simple: Past participle of hide. Use this form after words like have, has, or was.
   - _The documents had been hidden long before investigators arrived._
   - _By nightfall, the smugglers had hidden their cargo in the cellar._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A type of crossword clue in which the letters of the solution appear consecutively within the wordplay.

## Origin

Formed from "hid" combined with the suffix "-en".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/hidden (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).