row
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹəʊ/
enpr: rō
ipa: /ˈɹoʊ/
ipa: /rɑː/
homophone: rho
homophone: roe
homophone: Rowe
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: rows
form: rew
Etymology: From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“row”), dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Saterland Frisian Riege (“row”), West Frisian rige (“row”), Dutch rij (“row, line”), German Low German Reeg, Riege, Rieg (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”).
Senses: examples: text: And there were windows in three rows.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings vii:4:
text: The bright seraphim in burning row.
ref: 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “At a Solemn Musick”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:
text: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
antonyms: column
glosses: A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
examples: text: Vyreen had just finished braiding my hair, and his call had caught me coming out of her crib with my 'rows looking tight.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 25:
text: If you thought it'd be hard to get a good cornrow braiding in Latvia, think again. Porzingis said he was re-braided almost every week to keep his rows fresh.
ref: 2015 October 22, Stefan Bondy, “Kristaps Porzingis had cornrows as a kid because 'all the girls loved it'”, in New York Daily News, New York, N.Y.: Daily News L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2022:
glosses: Clipping of cornrow.
Synonyms: sense: line of objects
word: line
sense: line of objects
word: sequence
sense: line of objects
word: series
sense: line of objects
word: succession
sense: line of objects
english: of seats
translation: of seats
word: tier
sense: in a table
word: line
Derived terms: back row
bald-headed row
camp as a row of tents
Christcross-row
Colliery Row
death row
five-in-a-row
Forest Row
front row
groundrow
ground row
hard row to hoe
have one's ducks in a row
hoe one's row
home row
in a row
long row to hoe
Loosley Row
mahogany row
Meadows row
Moor Row
murderers' row
Pendlay row
pervert's row
perv row
put one's ducks in a row
reduced row echelon form
renegade row
ribble-row
row crop
row echelon form
row-equivalence
row-equivalent
row house
row of pins
row-reduced
row space
row to hoe
row up
row vector
row Z
Savile Row
second row
Shield Row
Shiney Row
skid row
Spooner Row
tough row to hoe