Definition of "Wade"

Wade

/weɪd/

proper noun
1. A topographic surname from Old English.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
  Quotations
  In due time, Charles' son was born and, because it was fashionable to name boys after their fathers' commanding officers, he was called Wade Hampton Hamilton.
  1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter VII, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944,
3. A system of romanization for the Chinese language based on 19th-century Pekingese pronunciation, worked out by Thomas Wade.
4. A number of places in the United States:
  1. A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
  2. A census-designated place in Jackson County, Mississippi.
  3. A town in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
  4. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Ohio.
  5. Two townships in Illinois, in Clinton County and Jasper County.