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rode¹

  • /ɹəʊd/ UK
  • /ɹoʊd/ US
  • /rod/ Scotland

Sounds like Rhode, road, rowed (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊd

verb

  1. past simple past of ride
  2. colloquial, nonstandard, participle, past past participle of ride 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[…]

rode²

  • /ɹəʊd/ UK
  • /ɹoʊd/ US
  • /rod/ Scotland

Sounds like Rhode, road, rowed (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊd

verb rodes · roding · roded

  1. Of a male woodcock, to fly back and forth over the edge of a woodland while calling; to perform its, typically crepuscular, mating flight. "When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather."

rode³

  • /ɹəʊd/ UK
  • /ɹoʊd/ US
  • /rod/ Scotland

Sounds like Rhode, road, rowed (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊd

noun rodes

  1. The line from a vessel to its anchor.

    Similar: warp

rode⁴

  • /ɹəʊd/ UK
  • /ɹoʊd/ US
  • /rod/ Scotland

Sounds like Rhode, road, rowed (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊd

noun rodes

  1. obsolete Obsolete form of road 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.

Rode⁵

Where it comes from

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

proper noun

  1. A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST8053).
  2. A habitational name for a person who either lived near a woodland clearing, or came from a place named Rode.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: stole, did, went, took, hectored, came, harassed, traveled, travelled, rude, left, fitted, installed, warmed, rod, mounted

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Chicago

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@misc{rode_2026,
  title = {rode},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rode},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}