Definitions For Hote

Noun

{{alt form, enm, ote}}

Verb

hotes , hoting , hight , hoten (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete) To command; to enjoin. : {{ux, en, The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.}} : {{ux, en, Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.}} (obsolete) To promise. (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named. (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.

Usage notes

In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows: * The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain said to five sailors: Stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. * Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf said to his men: Build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.

Related terms

behote

Etymology

From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from {{inh, en, ang, hātan, t=to command, be called}}, from {{inh, en, gem-pro, haitaną, t=command, name}}, from {{der, en, ine-pro, *keyd-}}, from *key-, t=put in motion, be moving. Cognate with {{cog, stq, heete, t=to be named}}, {{cog, nl, heten, t=to be named}}, {{cog, nds-de, heten, t=to be called, be named}}, {{cog, de, heißen, t=to be called}}, {{cog, sv, heta, , to be called}}. Related to hight, hest.

Anagrams

Theo, Theo., etho-, theo-

Middle English

Is Hote a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
7
Words with Friends
6

The word Hote is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends

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