rando

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From random +‎ -o (“(colloquial); person with characteristic”); compare sicko, weirdo. From early 2000s.

Adjective

rando (comparative more rando, superlative most rando)

  1. (colloquial) Random; arbitrary.

Noun

rando (plural randos)

  1. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) An arbitrary person with whom one has no shared social connection.
    I accidentally took some rando's luggage from the airport carousel.
    • 2018 August 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality”, in The Atlantic‎:
      The very idea that a bunch of randos on the internet could create a better encyclopedia than a team of professionals was mildly ludicrous, and yet the project went on, […] .
    • 2022, Game Freak, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, spoken by Nemona:
      You don't have to go finding randos to battle!
  2. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) A person going to a party without being invited.
  3. (colloquial) Anything selected at random.
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Etymology 2

Clipping of randonnée, from French randonnée (“hiking”).

Adjective

rando

  1. Pertaining to randonnée or uphill skiing.

Anagrams

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  • Rhymes: -ando
  • Hyphenation: ran‧do

Etymology 1

From German Rand.

Noun

rando (accusative singular randon, plural randoj, accusative plural randojn)

  1. edge

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Etymology 2

From Afrikaans rand, ultimately from the same Germanic root as above.

Noun

rando (accusative singular randon, plural randoj, accusative plural randojn)

  1. rand (currency of South Africa)

French

Etymology

Clipping of randonnée.

Pronunciation

Noun

rando f (plural randos)

  1. (informal) walk, trek (for pleasure)

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

rando

  1. first-person singular present indicative of randar
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