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rut

noun · verb · 17 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.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ]
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Northern-England: /ɹʊt/
  • rhymes with -ʌt
  • CMU ARPABET: R AH1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: heat

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Near-synonyms: grunt, roar

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: grunt, roar

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable

Topics: lifestyle

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: groove, furrow

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: routine

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A dull routine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively

Examples

  • Dull job, no interests, no dates. He's really in a rut.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To be in the annual rut or mating season.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: blissom, brim, bull, oestruate

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To have sexual intercourse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: do it, get some, have sex, approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, make love, mate, share a bed, sleep together, strain, bang, bauf, beat, bone, boff, boink, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, clap cheeks, dance, discuss Uganda, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, expletive deleted, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get the dirty water off one's chest, graft the forked tree, go all the way, haul one's ashes, have it away, have it off, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make it, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle, ming, Netflix and chill, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, pound, rail, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, shaboink, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, stick, tumble

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To have sexual intercourse with.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with, Formal terms, bed, coit, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To rub the genitals against something for physical stimulation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, slang

Examples

  • Near-synonym: hump

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hump

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To make a furrow.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they fell into a conversational rut

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: groove

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: routine, modus operandi

14

noun

Meaning 14

a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: groove, channel

15

noun

Meaning 15

applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: estrus, oestrus, heat

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: physical condition, physiological state, physiological condition

16

verb

Meaning 16

hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • furrow soil

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: furrow, groove

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dig, delve, cut into, turn over

17

verb

Meaning 17

be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: be

History

Etymology

From Middle English rutte (noun) and rutten (verb), from Old French rut (“noise, roar, bellowing”), from Latin rugītus, from rugīre (“to roar”).

Probably from Middle English route, from Middle French route (“road”), from Old French route. See also rutter.

Across languages

Translations

169 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: разгоненост (razgonenost) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Catalan: zel — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Chinese Mandarin: 發情 /发情 (fāqíng) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Czech: říje — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Danish: brunst — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Dutch: bronst — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Finnish: kiima — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Finnish: kiima-aika — sexual desire or oestrus
  • French: rut — sexual desire or oestrus
  • German: Brunft — sexual desire or oestrus
  • German: Brunst — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Hungarian: bőgés — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Hungarian: rigyetés — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Hungarian: dürgés — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Hungarian: üzekedés — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Italian: estro — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Italian: foia — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Italian: fregola — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Japanese: 発情 (hatsujō) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Korean: 발정 (baljeong) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Latgalian: rūja — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Latvian: riests — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Lithuanian: ruja — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Macedonian: разго́нетост (razgónetost) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Occitan: calor — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Occitan: gèst — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Occitan: letz — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Polish: ruja — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Portuguese: cio — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Russian: полова́я охо́та (polovája oxóta) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Russian: полово́е возбужде́ние (polovóje vozbuždénije) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Russian: гон (gon) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Russian: те́чка (téčka) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Russian: э́струс (éstrus) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Scottish Gaelic: dàmhair — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Serbo-Croatian: estrus — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Slovak: ruja — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Slovene: gonitev — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Slovene: gonjenje — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Spanish: estro — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Spanish: brama — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Spanish: celo — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Spanish: berrea — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Spanish: cachondez — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Swedish: brunst — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Turkish: kızışma — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Ottoman Turkish: قیزغینلق (kızgınlık) — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Welsh: rhidiad — sexual desire or oestrus
  • Armenian: անվակոս (anvakos) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Bulgarian: коловоз (kolovoz) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Chinese Mandarin: 轍 /辙 (zhé) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Czech: (vyjetá) kolej — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Czech: stopa — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Dutch: groef — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Dutch: geul — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Dutch: spoor — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Esperanto: radsulko — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Esperanto: vojsulko — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Finnish: uurre — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Finnish: ura — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Finnish: ajoura — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • French: ornière — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Galician: rodeira — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Galician: rodal — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Galician: rilleira — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • German: Furche — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • German: Spur — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • German: Spurrille — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Ingrian: uurran — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Japanese: 轍 (wadachi) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Latin: salebra — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Latin: orbita — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Macedonian: бра́зда (brázda) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Macedonian: ко́ловоз (kólovoz) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Occitan: rodal — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Occitan: rodam — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Occitan: carral — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Occitan: rega — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Occitan: selhon — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Persian: رد (rad) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Polish: koleina — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Portuguese: sulco — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Portuguese: rodeira — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Romanian: urmă — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Romanian: făgaș — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Romanian: șanț — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Romanian: rutină — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Russian: колея́ (kolejá) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Russian: борозда́ (borozdá) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Scottish Gaelic: clais — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Serbo-Croatian: kolotrag — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: rodera — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: surco — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: rodada — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: sulco — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: rodal — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: carrilera — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: carrilada — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Spanish: calamina — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Tagalog: lubyak — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Tagalog: bal-ak — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Ottoman Turkish: چیغیر (çığır) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Ukrainian: колія (kolija) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Ukrainian: вибоїна (vybojina) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Ukrainian: борозна (borozna) — furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground
  • Bulgarian: рутина (rutina) — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Czech: rutina — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Czech: stereotyp — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Czech: zajeté koleje — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Danish: vane — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Danish: trummerum — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Finnish: ura — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • French: ornière — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • French: voie de garage — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • German: Trott — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Latin: orbita — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Macedonian: ру́тина (rútina) — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Occitan: rodal — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Occitan: carral — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Portuguese: rotina — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Portuguese: marasmo — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Portuguese: ramerrão — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Romanian: rutină — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Romanian: obicei — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Russian: рути́на (rutína) — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Russian: привы́чка (privýčka) — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Scottish Gaelic: clais — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Ukrainian: рутина (rutyna) — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Ukrainian: звичка (zvyčka) — fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling
  • Bulgarian: разгонвам се (razgonvam se) — to be in the annual rut
  • Czech: říjet — to be in the annual rut
  • Danish: være i brunst — to be in the annual rut
  • Dutch: bronstig zijn — to be in the annual rut
  • Finnish: olla kiimassa — to be in the annual rut
  • French: être en rut — to be in the annual rut
  • German: brunften — to be in the annual rut
  • German: brunsten — to be in the annual rut
  • Hungarian: bőg — to be in the annual rut
  • Hungarian: rigyet — to be in the annual rut
  • Hungarian: dürög — to be in the annual rut
  • Japanese: 盛りがつく (sakari ga tsuku) — to be in the annual rut
  • Lithuanian: rujoti — to be in the annual rut
  • Macedonian: се разго́нува (se razgónuva) — to be in the annual rut
  • Portuguese: estar em cio — to be in the annual rut
  • Russian: быть в охо́те (bytʹ v oxóte) — to be in the annual rut
  • Serbo-Croatian: tjerati se — to be in the annual rut
  • Serbo-Croatian: goniti se — to be in the annual rut
  • Sindhi: وَڙْجَڻُ (vaṛjaṇu) — to be in the annual rut
  • Spanish: estar en brama / celo — to be in the annual rut
  • Spanish: encelarse — to be in the annual rut
  • Spanish: extremarse — to be in the annual rut
  • Swedish: löpa — to be in the annual rut
  • Turkish: kızışmak — to be in the annual rut
  • Turkish: boğasamak — to be in the annual rut
  • Ottoman Turkish: سیمك (siymek) — to be in the annual rut
  • Bulgarian: набраздявам (nabrazdjavam) — make a furrow
  • Bulgarian: правя коловоз (pravja kolovoz) — make a furrow
  • Czech: vyjezdit koleje — make a furrow
  • Finnish: uurtaa — make a furrow
  • French: sillonner — make a furrow
  • German: furchen — make a furrow
  • Macedonian: бра́зди (brázdi) — make a furrow
  • Occitan: selhonar — make a furrow
  • Occitan: regar — make a furrow
  • Romanian: lăsa urmă — make a furrow
  • Romanian: face șanț — make a furrow
  • Russian: бороздить (borozditʹ) — make a furrow
  • Spanish: surcar — make a furrow
  • Spanish: sulcar (disused) — make a furrow