rand
/ɹænd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
Obsolete
noun
A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
noun
The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.
Example Sentences
- "at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh"
- "Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation."
- "Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils."
- "[…] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep."
- "They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins"
- "They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue."
Etymology
From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹænd/
- British English: /ɹænd/
Usage
- Obsolete
- British usage
- Intransitive verb