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chad1 /tʃad /nounA piece of waste material removed from card or tape by punching. Origin 1950s: of unknown origin. Chad2 /tʃad / A landlocked country in northern central Africa; population 10,329,200 (est. 2009); official languages, French and Arabic; capital, N’Djamena. Much of the country lies in the Sahel and, in the north, the Sahara Desert. A French colony from 1913, Chad became autonomous within the French Community in 1958, and fully independent as a republic in 1960. Rhymes ad, add, Allahabad, bad, Baghdad, bedad, begad, cad, clad, dad, egad, fad, forbade, gad, glad, grad, had, lad, mad, pad, plaid, rad, Riyadh, sad, scad, shad, Strad, tad, trad |