dred

A back-formation from dreden.

• drede
• (rare) dret, dride

• IPA^(key): /drɛːd/, /drɛd/, /-ə/

dred (plural dredes)

1. Fear, dread; the state of being frightened:
   1. Anxiousness; the state of being anxious.
   2. (rare) Fearfulness; the state of tending to fear.
2. Awe, veneration; fearful respect.
3. Danger or jeopardy; something causing danger.
4. (with a negative) Lack of certainty; doubt.

• English: dread
• Scots: dreid, dreed

• “drēd(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

dred

1. alternative form of dreden

• IPA^(key): /dreːd/

drēd

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of drǣdan

Borrowed from English dread(lock), from Jamaican Creole dreadlocks.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt
• Syllabification: dred

dred m inan

1. (chiefly in the plural) dread (hairstyle worn by Rastafarians and others in which the hair is left to grow into long matted strings)

• dred in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dred in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowing from English dread.

• IPA^(key): /dred/

dred (nominative plural dreds)

1. fear, fright