ridge
/ɹɪd͡ʒ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
noun
Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
noun
The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
noun
The highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
noun
noun
A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
Example Sentences
- "He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid[…]"
- "The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows."
- "mountain ridge"
- "It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick."
- "Among the domestic animals which may generally be seen in native houses, are gaudy parrots, green, red, and blue, a few domestic fowls, which have baskets hung for them to lay in under the eaves, and who sleep on the ridge, and several half-starved wolfish-looking dogs."
- "Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky."
Etymology
From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: rigge, hryċġ, *hrugi, *hrugjaz, *(s)krewk-, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹɪd͡ʒ/
- British English: /ɹɪd͡ʒ/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
enridge
Greenridge
Heathridge
interridge
Lockridge
microridge
nanoridge
Oakridge
Pineridge
Redridge
Ridge
ridgeback
Phrases
Acacia Ridge
Acalanes Ridge
Alpine Ridge
alveolar ridge
apical ectodermal ridge
Bald Ridge
Balmoral Ridge
Barden Ridge