rode

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: rōd, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊd/
• (US) enPR: rōd, IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊd/

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• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /rod/
• Homophones: Rhode, road (general), rowed (except Scotland)
• Rhymes: -əʊd

rode

1. simple past of ride
2. (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of ride
   • 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] ‎^[1], 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 […] ‎^[2], 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)‎^[3], 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.

rode (third-person singular simple present rodes, present participle roding, simple past and past participle roded)

1. (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."

rode (plural rodes)

1. (nautical) The line from a vessel to its anchor.

• warp

rode (plural rodes)

1. 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.

• Dore, EDRO, Oder, dero, doer, orde, redo, roed

• (Zürich) IPA^(key): /ˈrodə/

rode (third-person singular simple present rodt, past participle grodt, auxiliary haa)

1. (transitive, reflexive) to move, stir
   • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili, I.5:

     Äs stoht im Stubli, rod't si nüd.

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 35.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrodɛ]

rode

1. vocative singular of rod

• IPA^(key): /roːdə/, [ˈʁoːðə]

rode c (singular definite roden, plural indefinite roder)

1. (military) file
2. tax collector's district

rode (imperative rod, infinitive at rode, present tense roder, past tense rodede, perfect tense har rodet)

1. to mess up (make a physical mess of)
2. to rummage, to root

• “rode” in Den Danske Ordbog

• rooie

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.də/

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rode

1. inflection of rood:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

• orde

rode

1. inflection of roder:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• dore, doré

rode

1. inflection of rodar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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rode

1. inflection of roden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

• oder

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːrə/

rode

1. to guess

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

rode

1. third-person singular present indicative of rodere

• -edro, orde, redo

rōde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of rōdō

From Old English rōd, from Proto-West Germanic *rōdu, from Proto-Germanic *rōdō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

• rod, rood, roude, rud, rude

• IPA^(key): /ˈroːd(ə)/
• Rhymes: -oːd

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. A cross or gibbet
2. The cross on which Christ was crucified, and derived uses such as:
   1. A crucifix
   2. Christlike torment, suffering, or tribulation

      a rode to beren ― a cross to bear

3. A rod, pole, or bar
4. A quarter of an acre; a rood
5. In place names: a woodland clearing.

• English: rood
• Scots: rude, ruid
• English: Rhode, Rhodes

• “rọ̄de, n.(5).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.
• “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)

From Old English rād, from Proto-West Germanic *raidu, from Proto-Germanic *raidō. The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms.

• rade, rod, rood, roode

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔːd(ə)/

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. ride, journey, voyage
2. harbour, roadstead

• brandreth

• English: road
• Scots: raid
  • → English: raid, rade (Scotland)
    • → Spanish: raid
    • → French: raid
    • → Italian: raid
    • → Polish: rajd
    • → Romanian: raid
    • → Swedish: räd
• → Old French: *rade
  • Middle French: rade
    • French: rade
      • → Catalan: rada
      • → Italian: rada
      • → Spanish: rada

• “rōde, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

From Old English rudu.

• rodde, roode, rud, rudde

• IPA^(key): /ˈrud(ə)/, /ˈroːd(ə)/

rode (plural rodes or roden)

1. ruddiness, redness
2. face, appearance, visage
3. Pot marigold, calendula (Calendula officinalis)

• rody
• ruddok
• ruden

• English: rud
• Scots: rud, rudd

• “rōde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.
• “rōde, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

From Old English ġerād, rād.

• rad

• IPA^(key): /rɔːd/

rode (plural rodes)

1. (rare) reckoning, judgement, account

• “rōde, n.(4).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2018.

rode (plural roddes)

1. alternative form of rodde (“rod”)

From Old English hreod.

rode (plural rodes)

1. reed, a reedy place

• English: Rhude
• English: Rudd

• 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)

From Old Norse roti m, from Middle Low German.

rode f (definite singular roda, indefinite plural roder, definite plural rodene)

1. (military) soldiers standing in a specific relation to each other in specific formations

From Old Norse roða.

• roda (a and split infinitives)

rode (present tense rodar, past tense roda, past participle roda, passive infinitive rodast, present participle rodande, imperative rode/rod)

1. (intransitive) to shine reddish, to be red
2. (transitive) to make red
3. (by extension, archaic) to glaze baked goods (with raw egg yolk or milk or similar) before putting into oven

• “rode” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroː.de/

rōde

1. inflection of rōd:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular

Compare German raten, Dutch raden, English read.

rode

1. to advise, to counsel
2. to guess

rode

1. to guess
2. to advise, to suggest

rode

1. inflection of rodar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

1. vocative singular of rod

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

1. inflection of roda:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

rode (Cyrillic spelling роде)

1. third-person plural present of roditi

rode

1. plural of roda