rede
/ɹiːd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A river in Northumberland, England, which joins the River North Tyne at Redesmouth.
Example Sentences
- "Ophelia: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede."
- "When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede""
- "‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’"
- "The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a knyȝtes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shalle I neuer said Bagdemagus"
- "But let me rede you, marry not."
- "The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede."
Etymology
From Middle English red, rede, from Old English rǣd, from Proto-West Germanic *rād, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz. Cognate with Danish råd, Dutch raad, German Rat, Swedish råd, Norwegian Bokmål råd. Indo-European cognates include Old Irish rádaid (“to speak, say, tell”). Doublet of rada.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Archaic
- Uncountable
- British usage
- Transitive verb