Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun chad

4 senses of chad

Sense 1
chad -- (a small piece of paper that is supposed to be removed when a hole is punched in a card or paper tape)
       => paper -- (a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses)

Sense 2
Lake Chad, Chad -- (a lake in north central Africa; fed by the Shari river)
       INSTANCE OF=> lake -- (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Sense 3
Chad, Republic of Chad, Tchad -- (a landlocked desert republic in north-central Africa; was under French control until 1960)
       INSTANCE OF=> African country, African nation -- (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Sense 4
Chad, Chadic, Chadic language -- (a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa)
       => Afroasiatic, Afro-Asiatic, Afroasiatic language, Afrasian, Afrasian language, Hamito-Semitic -- (a large family of related languages spoken both in Asia and Africa)