Definitions for HAP

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HAP hap

Spelling: [hap]

IPA: /hæp/

Hap is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in HAP (ahp).

Definitions for HAP

noun

1. one's luck or lot.
2. an occurrence, happening, or accident.
3. a comforter or quilt.
4. Apis.
5. Benedict, 1741–1801, American general in the Revolutionary War who became a traitor.
6. Sir Edwin, 1832–1904, English poet and journalist.
7. Henry H ("Hap") 1886–1950, U.S. general.
8. Matthew, 1822–88, English essayist, poet, and literary critic.
9. his father, Thomas, 1795–1842, English clergyman, educator, historian, and writer.
10. Thurman Wesley [thur-muh n] /ˈθɜr mən/ (Show IPA), 1891–1969, U.S. lawyer and writer.
11. a town in E Missouri.
12. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “eagle” and “power.”.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as with a comforter or quilt.

verb (used without object)

1. to happen:

Origin of HAP

1150-1200; Middle English Old Norse happ luck, chance; akin to Old English gehæp fit, convenient; probably akin to OCS kobŭ auspice, Old Irish cob victory

Examples for HAP

Now then, Agnes Love, cast that over you, and hap it close to keep you warm.

They “got by” with it until the matter came to hap's notice.

But on hap's shoulders rests the output for our entire department.

I never know what that signifieth: and I have seen it to hap aforetime.

“Well nigh all such as could hap, Madam,” said Le Despenser wearily.

Just as he said this, what should hap At the chamber door but a gentle tap?

He is always resolved at first thinking, and the ground he goes upon is, hap what may.

Uncle Jack often calls them hap and Hazard, and that is the only difference between them.

"hap yourself well," he had said when they crossed the gangway on to the boat.

It was the only time even hap so much as paid the least attention to what went on.