dret

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: drĕt, IPA^(key): /dɹɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

dret

1. Obsolete spelling of drate; simple past of drite. [18th century]

• RDTE, RTed, retd, ret'd, retd., RDT&E

Inherited from Old Catalan dret, from Late Latin drictus,^[1] syncopated form of Latin dīrectus. Cognate with Occitan drech, dreit, French droit, Sicilian drittu. Doublet of directe.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈdɾɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈdɾət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈdɾet]

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dret (feminine dreta, masculine plural drets, feminine plural dretes)

1. right; opposite of left

   Synonym: destre

   Antonyms: esquerre, sinistre

2. straight (not crooked or bent)

   Synonym: recte

   Antonym: corb

3. upright, erect, standing

   Synonyms: dempeus, vertical

• indret

dret m (plural drets)

1. right (something one is allowed to do)
2. law (collectively, all the laws to which citizens are subject)
3. law (the science)

• drets humans

• “dret”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “dret” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “dret” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /dʁɛ/

dret (feminine drette, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettes)

1. (obsolete) (slang) form of droit
   • 1984, Honoré de Balzac, chapter XVIII, in La muse du département ; Un prince de la bohème‎^[1], page 98:

     Mais je ne sais rien, moi ! Je n’ai pas besoin de vous dire qu’il y a une sentinelle au dret de la tour.

     But I don't know anything! I don't need to tell you that there is a guard to the right of the tower.

dret

1. (obsolete) exactly, precisely
   • unknown, French folk song, “Il était un p'tit cordonnier”‎^[2]:

     Quand à la maison il rentrait
     Sa petite femme il battait.
     Il la battait si juste
     Qu'il n'y'avait rien d' plus juste.
     Il la battait tout dret,
     Pas plus qu'il n'en fallait.

     When he'd come home
     He'd beat his little wife
     He beat her so fine
     There was nothing more fine
     He beat her so right
     No more than was needed

• dreit

• “dret” in L'Internaute.

From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.

dret

1. right
2. straight, direct

• drečâ
• drete

dret

1. (rare) alternative form of dred

• dretg (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Late Latin drictus, from Latin dīrectus.

dret m (plural drets)

1. (law, Puter, Vallader) law

dret m (feminine singular dretta, masculine plural drets, feminine plural drettas)

1. (Puter, Vallader) right (direction)

dret

1. supine of dreti

Cognate with English dirt.

dret c

1. (dialectal) shit (excrement; dirt, filth; (figuratively) crap)

Sometimes used as an intensifier, similar to "skit-" – "dretfull" means "shit-faced."

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