Standard Lemma guide

rode

name · noun · verb · 7 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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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  • rōd
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ɹəʊd/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ɹoʊd/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Scotland: /rod/
  • homophone: Rhode
  • homophone: road
  • homophone: rowed (toe–tow merger)
  • rhymes with -əʊd
  • CMU ARPABET: R OW1 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST8053).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

name

Meaning 2

A habitational name for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place named Rode.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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3

noun

Meaning 3

The line from a vessel to its anchor.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: nautical, transport

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4

noun

Meaning 4

Obsolete form of road.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, obsolete

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5

verb

Meaning 5

simple past of ride

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: form-of, past

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6

verb

Meaning 6

past participle of ride

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

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7

verb

Meaning 7

Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, natural-sciences, ornithology

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History

Etymology

In place names, from Old English *rodu (“clearing”).

Across languages

Translations

6 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Dutch: reed — The line from the vessel to its anchor
  • Dutch: reden — The line from the vessel to its anchor
  • Finnish: ankkuriköysi — The line from the vessel to its anchor
  • Finnish: ankkurikettinki — The line from the vessel to its anchor
  • Icelandic: reið — The line from the vessel to its anchor
  • Norwegian: red — The line from the vessel to its anchor