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roe¹
- /ˈɹəʊ/ UK
- /ˈɹoʊ/ US
Sounds like rho, Roe, Wroe, row, Rowe (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”).
Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulai̇̃ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).
noun roes
- Eggs of fish. It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.
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Sperm of certain fish.
Similar: milt
- Ovaries of certain crustaceans.
roe²
- /ˈɹəʊ/ UK
- /ˈɹoʊ/ US
Sounds like rho, Roe, Wroe, row, Rowe (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From Middle English ro, roa, from Old English rā, rāha, from Proto-West Germanic *raihō, from Proto-Germanic *raihô, *raihą, from *róyko-, from Proto-Indo-European *rey- (“spotted, streaked”).
See also Saterland Frisian Räi, Dutch ree, German Reh; also Irish riabh (“tripe, streak”), Latvian ràibs (“spotted”), Russian рябо́й (rjabój, “mottled fur”).
noun roe · roes
- Ellipsis of roe deer And let his foes like flockes of feareful Roes, Purſude by hunters, flie his angry lookes, That I may ſee him iſſue Conquerour.
- A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
ROE³
noun ROEs · RoE · R.O.E. · R. O. E. · R.o.E. · R. o. E.
- Initialism of return on equity, a measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings.
- Initialism of rule(s) of engagement, a/the rule(s) governing when to fire or return fire.
- Abbreviation of record of employment
Roe⁴
- /ɹoʊ/ US
Sounds like roe, rho, row, Rowe (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From a Middle English nickname meaning a roe.
proper noun Roes
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- A town in Monroe County, Arkansas, United States.
Roe⁵
- /ɹoʊ/ US
Sounds like roe, rho, row, Rowe (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From "Jane Roe", the legal pseudonym of the case's anonymous plaintiff.
proper noun
- Ellipsis of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 US Supreme Court case which legalized abortion and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment. Ultimately, Ms. Bottone said she just wanted to know whether she could keep driving in the H.O.V. lane for the remainder of her pregnancy, as she said she had in her previous pregnancies, long before the overturning of Roe.
Roe⁶
- /ɹoʊ/ US
Sounds like roe, rho, row, Rowe (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From Irish an Ró ("the roaring one").
proper noun
- A river in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Roe⁷
- /ɹoʊ/ US
Sounds like roe, rho, row, Rowe (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From a clipping of Roegadyn.
noun Roes
- An individual of the orclike Roegadyn race. My fiance is a Roe that looks pretty close to Ganondorf.
RoE⁸
noun RoEs
- Alternative form of ROE
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: hard roe, caviar, shad, deer, venison, egg, gonad, roux, pcr, cpr, eml, rio, ers, wan, sos, roh
Translations
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title = {roe},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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