Cad Definition

kăd
noun
A man or boy whose behavior is not gentlemanly.
Webster's New World
Computer-aided design.
Webster's New World

A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.

Wiktionary

A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.

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abbreviation
Computer-aided design.
American Heritage Medicine
Coronary artery disease.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cad

Noun

Singular:
cad
Plural:
cads

Origin of Cad

  • Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Short for caddie

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cad Sentence Examples

  • Josh the cad got sweet young Edith pregnant and skipped.

  • Why doesn't the cad get a proper job?

  • O'Bannon plays the careless cad with such ease that nothing bothers him.

  • He claims that one of his distinctions at school was that he was once called a cad by the Headmaster.

  • Mechanical and electrical design expertise utilizing the latest cad and project management tools.

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Words Starting With

CCACAD

Words Ending With

DADCAD

Unscrambles

cad

Words Starting With C and Ending With D

Starts With C & Ends With DStarts With CA & Ends With DStarts With C & Ends With AD

Word Length

3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With C3 Letter Words Ending With D