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row

Pronunciation: /ɹəʊ/

The English word “row” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
  2. Specifically, a line of buildings on a street; also, the street itself (especially in street names)
  3. A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
  4. An act or instance of rowing.
  5. Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
  6. A noisy argument.
  7. A continual loud noise.

verb

  1. To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
  2. To transport in a boat propelled with oars.
  3. To be moved by oars.
  4. To argue noisily.

Etymology

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English rǣw, rāw, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiwō, *raigwō, *rīgǭ (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreyk- (“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…

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