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rede¹

  • /ɹiːd/

Sounds like read, reed · Rhymes with -iːd

Where it comes from

From Middle English red, rede, from Old English rǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *rād, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz.

Cognate with Danish råd, Dutch raad, German Rat, Swedish råd, Norwegian Bokmål råd. Indo-European cognates include Old Irish rádaid (“to speak, say, tell”). Doublet of rada.

noun read

  1. archaic, dialectal, uncountable Help, advice, counsel. Ophelia: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.
  2. archaic, dialectal, uncountable Decision, a plan.

rede²

  • /ɹiːd/

Sounds like read, reed · Rhymes with -iːd

Where it comes from

From Middle English reden, ræden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise; plot, design; rule, govern, guide; determine, decide, decree; read, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną.

Cognate with German raten, Low German raden, Dutch raden. More at read.

verb redes · reding · red · redd

  1. UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive To govern, protect.
  2. UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive To discuss, deliberate.
  3. UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive To advise. The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a knyȝtes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shal
  4. UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain. The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede.

Rede³

Where it comes from

Probably from Old English hrēod (“reed”).

proper noun

  1. A river in Northumberland, England, which joins the River North Tyne at Redesmouth.

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@misc{rede_2026,
  title = {rede},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rede},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}