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helmeted

helmeted

4 4.1
Wearing a hard hat
  • adjective
  • /ˈhɛlmɪtɪd/
translation icon : con casco
  • Peter followed the specially trained, smoke-helmeted firemen into the burning Hotel Hafnia in the heart of Copenhagen.
  • helmeted soldier

Examples

  • Twenty-five hundred blue-helmeted troops are massing on the Canadian border right now.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Ben is sitting in the back with Vitti as the helmeted SWAT cops board the bus.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • "We did it!" Her helmeted head drooped down onto her chest.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • Shortly before 11 p.m., a large group of helmeted police entered the park accompanied by several higher-ranking officers.

    Blog text (18)
  • Jones turned his helmeted head toward Bandicut and hooked a gloved thumb toward the small shaft.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Suited and helmeted, Maxim describes the scene that is onscreen everywhere throughout Pioneer.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • In another part of the city, the helmeted SWAT team members climbed the steps of a building.

  • Ahead of him, other horsemen appear, led by a helmeted police officer brandishing a pistol.

  • Jeffrey-Brown reported that a hundred or more helmeted police battled back during the violence.

Antonyms

28 2.9

Not safe from harm

1 3.9

Not wearing a hat or other head covering

How Protected

protected
1 2.0
helmeted
4 4.1
unprotected
28 2.9

Surface Forms

helmeted positive

Morphology

helmeted = helmet (transparent) = helmet + ed

Direct adjectival formation from 'helmet' with the participial/adjectival suffix '-ed' meaning 'wearing or equipped with a helmet'.

Etymology

Helmeted comes from an old English word helm, which meant 'protection' or 'cover for the head', and from the later word helmet for that head cover. So, to be helmeted is simply to be wearing a protective head cover.