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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Verb
rode
simple past of ride
( now colloquial , nonstandard ) past participle of ride
1662 , John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute , 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 , volume II:We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day.
2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues) , Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN , page 100 :I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't.
Etymology 2
Verb
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."
Etymology 3
Noun
rode (plural rodes )
( nautical ) The line from a vessel to its anchor .
Synonyms
Translations
The line from the vessel to its anchor
Etymology 4
Noun
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.
Anagrams
Alemannic German
Pronunciation
Verb
rode (third-person singular simple present rodt , past participle grodt , auxiliary haa )
( transitive , reflexive ) to move , stir
References
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
rode
vocative singular of rod
Danish
Pronunciation
Noun
rode c (singular definite roden , plural indefinite roder )
( military ) file
tax collector 's district
Declension
Verb
rode (imperative rod , infinitive at rode , present tense roder , past tense rodede , perfect tense har rodet )
to mess up ( make a physical mess of )
to rummage , to root
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
Adjective
rode
inflection of rood :
masculine / feminine singular attributive
definite neuter singular attributive
plural attributive
Anagrams
French
Verb
rode
inflection of roder :
first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive
second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
rode
inflection of rodar :
first / third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
German
Pronunciation
Verb
rode
inflection of roden :
first-person singular present
first / third-person singular subjunctive I
singular imperative
Anagrams
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Verb
rode
to guess
Further reading
Italian
Verb
rode
third-person singular present indicative of rodere
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
rōde
second-person singular present active imperative of rōdō
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English rōd , from Proto-West Germanic *rōdu , from Proto-Germanic *rōdō . The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
Pronunciation
Noun
rode (plural rodes or roden )
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 .
Descendants
References
“rọ̄de, n.(5). ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2007 , retrieved 2018-04-04 .
“road, Etymology, n. ”, in OED Online , Oxford: 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)
Etymology 2
From Old English rād , from Proto-West Germanic *raidu , from Proto-Germanic *raidō . The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.
Pronunciation
Noun
rode (plural rodes or roden )
ride , journey , voyage
harbour , roadstead
Descendants
English: road
Scots: raid
→ Old French: *rade
References
Etymology 3
From Old English rudu .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈrud(ə)/ , /ˈroːd(ə)/
Noun
rode (plural rodes or roden )
ruddiness , redness
face , appearance , visage
Pot marigold , calendula ( Calendula officinalis )
Descendants
References
“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 .
Etymology 4
From Old English ġerād , rād .
Pronunciation
Noun
rode (plural rodes )
( rare ) reckoning , judgement , account
References
Etymology 5
Noun
rode (plural roddes )
Alternative form of rodde ( “ rod ” )
Etymology 6
From Old English hreod .
Noun
rode (plural rodes )
reed, a reedy place
Descendants
References
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)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse roti m , from Middle Low German .
Noun
rode f (definite singular roda , indefinite plural roder , definite plural rodene )
( military ) soldiers standing in a specific relation to each other in specific formations
Etymology 2
From Old Norse roða .
roda ( a and split infinitives )
Verb
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
References
“rode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German raten , Dutch raden , English read .
Verb
rode
to advise , to counsel
to guess
Plautdietsch
Verb
rode
to guess
to advise , to suggest
Portuguese
Verb
rode
inflection of rodar :
first / third-person singular present subjunctive
third-person singular imperative
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
rode (Cyrillic spelling роде )
vocative singular of rod
Noun
rode (Cyrillic spelling роде )
inflection of roda :
genitive singular
nominative / accusative / vocative plural
Verb
rode (Cyrillic spelling роде )
third-person plural present of roditi
Venetan
Noun
rode
plural of roda