hot

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Very recent and exciting; in great demand.

   This is the hottest new restaurant in town.

2. 2
   adj

   Carrying electric current; live.

   Be careful, that wire is hot.

3. 3
   adj

   Recently stolen and difficult to sell safely.

   The police suspected the jewellery was hot.

4. 4
   adj

   Having a high level of dangerous radioactivity.

   Workers handle the hot fuel rods with great care.

Common collocations

• hot drink Adjective + noun
• hot summer Adjective + noun
• hot tea Adjective + noun

From Middle English hot, hat, from Old English hāt (“hot”), from Proto-West Germanic *hait, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz (“hot”), from Proto-Indo-European *keHy- (“hot; to heat”). Cognate with Scots hate, hait (“hot”), North Frisian hiet (“hot”), Saterland Frisian heet (“hot”), West Frisian hjit (“hot”), Dutch heet (“hot”), German Low German heet (“hot”), German heiß (“hot”), Danish hed (“hot”), Swedish het (“hot”), Icelandic heitur (“hot”). Superseded non-native Middle English chaud, from Old French chaut (“hot”); and early Modern English calent, from Latin calēns (“hot”).

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