noun
Meaning 1
A way or path; a road.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lode
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ləʊd/
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General-American: /loʊd/
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Australian: /ləʉd/
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rhymes with -əʊd
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homophone: load
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homophone: lowed
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CMU ARPABET: L OW1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A watercourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A rich source of supply.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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noun
Meaning 5
a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: load
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deposit, sedimentation, alluviation
Narrower terms: mother lode, champion lode
History
Etymology
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
Across languages
Translations
33 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: жила (žila) — vein of metallic ore
- Bulgarian: залеж (zalež) — vein of metallic ore
- Catalan: filó — vein of metallic ore
- Catalan: bei — vein of metallic ore
- Czech: rudná žíla — vein of metallic ore
- Danish: åre — vein of metallic ore
- Finnish: suoni — vein of metallic ore
- Finnish: malmisuoni — vein of metallic ore
- French: filon — vein of metallic ore
- Georgian: ძარღვი (ʒarɣvi) — vein of metallic ore
- German: Ader — vein of metallic ore
- Greek: φλέβα (fléva) — vein of metallic ore
- Hebrew: עוֹרֵק (orék) — vein of metallic ore
- Hungarian: telér — vein of metallic ore
- Hungarian: ércér — vein of metallic ore
- Irish: síog — vein of metallic ore
- Irish: lód — vein of metallic ore
- Italian: filone — vein of metallic ore
- Japanese: 鉱脈 (kōmyaku) — vein of metallic ore
- Macedonian: жи́ла (žíla) — vein of metallic ore
- Polish: żyła — vein of metallic ore
- Russian: жи́ла (žíla) — vein of metallic ore
- Serbo-Croatian: žila — vein of metallic ore
- Spanish: filón — vein of metallic ore
- Spanish: veta — vein of metallic ore
- Tibetan: གཏེར་ཁ (gter kha) — vein of metallic ore
- Danish: guldgrube — rich source of supply
- Finnish: suoni — rich source of supply
- German: Goldgrube — rich source of supply
- Greek: πηγή (pigí) — rich source of supply
- Serbo-Croatian: zlatna žila — rich source of supply
- Spanish: montón — rich source of supply
- Tibetan: གཏེར་ཁ (gter kha) — rich source of supply