raid
/ɹeɪd/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.19 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
noun
An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
noun
A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
Example Sentences
- "Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight."
- "There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids."
- "a police raid of a narcotics factory"
- "a raid of contractors on the public treasury"
- "For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year."
- "The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians."
Etymology
From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
Origin
- Source language: Old English