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- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rōd, IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊd/
- (US) enPR: rōd, IPA(key): /ˈɹoʊd/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /rod/
- Homophones: Rhode, road (general), rowed (except Scotland)
- Rhymes: -əʊd
rode
- simple past of ride
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride
1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] [1], page 26:
No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief […]
1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] [2], volume II:
We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.
rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)
- (ornithology) Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
"When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."
rode (plural rodes)
The line from the vessel to its anchor
rode (plural rodes)
- Obsolete form of road.
1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters:
Thomas Carlysle, &c. rode a Forrey to Dunglas, and there seased and brought away 80 Nolt, 200 Shepe, 22 Naggs. A Rode made to a Stede called the Hayrebed, and there they gate 30 Nolt, 3 or 4 Naggs.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 461:
There dwelt a ſaluage nation, which did liue / Of ſtealth and ſpoile, and making nightly rode / Into their neighbours borders […]
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 27:10, column 1:
And Achiſh said, Whither haue ye made a rode to day? And Dauid said, Againſt the South of Iudah, and againſt the South of the Ierahmeelites, and againſt the South of the Kenites.
rode (third-person singular simple present rodt, past participle grodt, auxiliary haa)
- (transitive, reflexive) to move, stir
- 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili, I.5:
- Äs stoht im Stubli, rod't si nüd.
- 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili, I.5:
- Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.
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rode c (singular definite roden, plural indefinite roder)
rode (imperative rod, infinitive at rode, present tense roder, past tense rodede, perfect tense har rodet)
- “rode” in Den Danske Ordbog
rode
- inflection of rood:
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- inflection of roder:
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- inflection of rodar:
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- inflection of roden:
rode
- to guess
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rōde
From Old English rōd, from Proto-West Germanic *rōdu, from Proto-Germanic *rōdō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
- A cross or gibbet
- The cross on which Christ was crucified, and derived uses such as:
- A crucifix
- Christlike torment, suffering, or tribulation, as in "an oðer rode to berene" (another cross to bear)
- A rod, pole, or bar
- A quarter of an acre; a rood
- In place names: a woodland clearing.
- “rọ̄de, n.(5).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
- “road, Etymology, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2023.
- Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rhode (no pagination)
- Room, Adrian (1988) Dictionary of place-names in the British Isles, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, s.v. Blackrod(p. 42)
- Joseph Bosworth (1921) Thomas Northcote Toller, editor, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: Supplement, Oxford: Clarendon Press, s.v. rōd(pp. 689–690)
From Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
- “rōde, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
From Old English rudu.
- ruddiness, redness
- face, appearance, visage
- Pot marigold, calendula (Calendula officinalis)
- “rōde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
- “rōde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
From Old English ġerād, rād.
rode (plural rodes)
- “rōde, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
rode (plural roddes)
- Alternative form of rodde (“rod”)
From Old English hreod.
rode (plural rodes)
- reed, a reedy place
- Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rhode (no pagination)
- Hanks, Patrick (2022) Dictionary of American Family Names, second edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, s.v. Rudd (no pagination)
From Old Norse roti m, from Middle Low German.
rode f (definite singular roda, indefinite plural roder, definite plural rodene)
- roda (a and split infinitives)
rode (present tense rodar, past tense roda, past participle roda, passive infinitive rodast, present participle rodande, imperative rode/rod)
- (intransitive) to shine reddish, to be red
- (transitive) to make red
- (by extension, archaic) to glaze baked goods (with raw egg yolk or milk or similar) before putting into oven
- “rode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Compare German raten, Dutch raden, English read.
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- inflection of rodar:
rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)
rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)
- inflection of roda:
rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)
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