row
UK /ɹəʊ/ · US /ɹoʊ/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms rows rowing rowed the Row rew
- noun A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden, etc.
- noun Specifically, a line of buildings on a street; also, the street itself (especially in street names)
- noun A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.
- verb (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.
- verb (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars. “to row the captain ashore in his barge”
- verb (intransitive) To be moved by oars. “The boat rows easily.”
- noun An act or instance of rowing. “I went for an early-morning row.”
- noun (weightlifting) Any of several thematically similar exercise movements performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.
- noun (UK) A noisy argument. “There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.”
- noun (UK) A continual loud noise. “Who's making that row?”
- verb (intransitive) To argue noisily.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
line sequence series succession tier paddle argument disturbance fight fracas quarrel shouting match slanging match din racket argue wrangle words run-in dustup course rowing
Antonyms
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 (“row”), German Reihe (“row”), German Riege (“sports team”).
From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English rōwan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *rōaną (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder. Related to Russia.
Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.
English surname, variant of Rowe.
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Rough; stern; angry. [Obs.] "Lock he never so row." Chaucer.
- noun A noisy, turbulent quarrel or disturbance; a brawl. [Colloq.]
- noun A series of persons or things arranged in a continued line; a line; a rank; a file; as, a row of trees; a row of houses or columns.
- verb To propel with oars, as a boat or vessel, along the surface of water; as, to row a boat.
Etymology [See Rough.]
Etymology [Abbrev. fr. rouse, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “row”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details