rez

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛz/

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rez (plural rezes or rezzes)

1. (US, slang) Clipping of reservation (“tract of land set apart for native people”).
   • 2016, Kalina Newmark, Nacole Walker, James Stanford, ‘The rez accent knows no borders’: Native American ethnic identity expressed through English prosody, Cambridge University Press, Published online.
2. (Canada, slang) Clipping of reserve.
3. (Canada, slang) Clipping of residence; dormitory.
4. Clipping of resonance.
5. (roleplaying games) Clipping of resurrection.
6. Clipping of resolution.

• rezzy (reservation)
• res (Indian reserve or reservation)

rez (third-person singular simple present rezzes, present participle rezzing, simple past and past participle rezzed)

1. (roleplaying games) Clipping of resurrect.
   • 1999 March 7, Phaedra, “My review of the EQ beta. (Very Long ;-)”, in alt.games.everquest‎^[1] (Usenet):

     When you die during the first 3 levels, you rez with food and water.

2. (video games) To spawn or load into the game.

   Don't rez some enormous prop: it'll lag the server!

• Ezr.

Inherited from Old Czech rzě, from Proto-Slavic *rъďa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛs]

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rez f or m inan (relational adjective rezavý or rezivý or rezovatý or rezovitý or rezatý)

1. rust

when feminine:

when masculine:

• “rez”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “rez”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “rez”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Inherited from Old French res, from Latin rāsus (“scraped”). Doublet of ras.

• IPA^(key): /ʁe/

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rez m (plural rez)

1. ground floor

• rez-de-chaussée
• rez-de-cour
• rez-de-jardin

• “rez”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Compare Persian رز (raz).

• IPA^(key): /rɛz/

rez m (Arabic spelling ڕه‌ز)

1. vineyard

• raz

• zêr

Deverbal from rezati.

• IPA^(key): /rêːz/

rȇz m inan (Cyrillic spelling ре̑з)

1. cut
2. incision

• “rez”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025