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row

row
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [roh]
    • /roʊ/
    • /raʊ/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [roh]
    • /roʊ/

Definitions of row word

  • abbreviation Technical meaning of ROW record 3
  • noun row a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion. 1
  • noun row noise or clamor. 1
  • verb with object row Chiefly British. to upbraid severely; scold. 1
  • idioms row hard / long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront: At 32 and with two children, she found attending medical school a hard row to hoe. 1
  • verb without object row to quarrel noisily. 1

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Origin of row

First appearance:

before 1175
One of the 8% oldest English words
1175-1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Row

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

row popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

row usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for row

noun row

  • aftereffect — The aftereffects of an event, experience, or substance are the conditions which result from it.
  • altercation — An altercation is a noisy argument or disagreement.
  • anarchism — Anarchism is the belief that the laws and power of governments should be replaced by people working together freely.
  • argument — An argument is a statement or set of statements that you use in order to try to convince people that your opinion about something is correct.
  • back alley — dirty, unprepossessing, sordid, or clandestine: back-alley morals; back-alley political schemes.

verb row

  • altercate — to argue, esp heatedly; dispute
  • argufy — to argue or quarrel, esp over something trivial
  • argue — If one person argues with another, they speak angrily to each other about something that they disagree about. You can also say that two people argue.
  • bandied — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
  • bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.

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