"rood" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɹuːd/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rood.wav Forms: roods [plural]
Rhymes: -uːd Etymology: From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English rōd (“cross”), from Proto-Germanic *rōdō, *rōdǭ (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”). Cognate with German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), Norwegian roda (“rod”). Largely displaced by cross. More at rod. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*reh₁t-}}, {{inh|en|enm|rode|id=cross}} Middle English rode, {{inh|en|ang|rōd||cross}} Old English rōd (“cross”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*rōdō}} Proto-Germanic *rōdō, {{der|en|ine-pro|*rōt-}} Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, {{cog|de|Rute||rod, cane, pole}} German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), {{cog|no|roda||rod}} Norwegian roda (“rod”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} rood (plural roods)
  1. (archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church. Tags: archaic Translations (crucifix): kruis [neuter] (Dutch), krusifiksi (Finnish), распе́тие (raspétie) [neuter] (Macedonian), Thánh Giá (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-rood-en-noun-EK9J1CbK Disambiguation of 'crucifix': 93 2 4 1 0
  2. A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre. Hypernyms (quarter of an acre): acre Hyponyms (quarter of an acre): lug, perch, fall (alt: all 1⁄40 rood) [Scottish] Translations (quarter of an acre): vergée [feminine] (French), ród [masculine] (Irish), rūri (Maori), pèrque [Jersey, feminine] (Norman)
    Sense id: en-rood-en-noun-TXHd4Pb9 Categories (other): Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 2 19 37 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 2 19 37 35 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 4 21 36 33 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 2 19 37 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 2 22 36 33 7 Synonyms (quarter of an acre): farthingdale, day's work, daywork, farthing, ferling, farthingdeal, farthingdole, farundel, yard, rod, Scottish rood [Scottish] Synonyms (quarter of an acre; Israeli): dunam Disambiguation of 'quarter of an acre': 1 50 29 20 0 Disambiguation of 'quarter of an acre; Israeli': 1 50 29 20 1 Disambiguation of 'quarter of an acre': 1 50 29 20 0 Disambiguation of 'quarter of an acre': 1 50 29 20 0 Disambiguation of 'quarter of an acre': 1 50 29 20 0
  3. (Chester, historical) An area of sixty-four square yards. Tags: historical
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  4. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length. Tags: UK, dialectal, obsolete
    Sense id: en-rood-en-noun-pZJjtSTL Categories (other): British English, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 2 19 37 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 2 19 37 35 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 4 21 36 33 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 2 19 37 34 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 2 22 36 33 7
  5. (archaic) The human face. Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-rood-en-noun-xP68p~TV
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: by the rood, holy rood, rood beam, Rood End, rood goose, rood-loft, rood screen, rood-steeple, rood-tree

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "rōd",
        "4": "",
        "5": "cross"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English rōd (“cross”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*rōdō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *rōdō",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*rōt-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *rōt-",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "Rute",
        "3": "",
        "4": "rod, cane, pole"
      },
      "expansion": "German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "no",
        "2": "roda",
        "3": "",
        "4": "rod"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian roda (“rod”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English rōd (“cross”), from Proto-Germanic *rōdō, *rōdǭ (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”).\nCognate with German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), Norwegian roda (“rod”). Largely displaced by cross. More at rod.",
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    {
      "form": "roods",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "rood (plural roods)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "acre"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "lug"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "perch"
    },
    {
      "alt": "all 1⁄40 rood",
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "tags": [
        "Scottish"
      ],
      "word": "fall"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “[The Historie of Irelande […].] The Thirde Booke of the Historie of Ireland, Comprising the Raigne of Henry the Eyght: ….”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC, pages 77–78, column 2:",
          "text": "The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:",
          "text": "Have you forgot me? No, by the rood, not so.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, Alfred Tennyson, “The Day-Dream. The Revival.”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 157:",
          "text": "By holy rood, a royal beard! / How say you? we have slept, my lords. / My beard has grown into my lap.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A crucifix, cross, especially in a church."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "cross",
          "cross"
        ],
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          "church",
          "church"
        ]
      ],
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        "(archaic) A crucifix, cross, especially in a church."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Robert Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.’”, in Men and Women […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, stanza XXV:",
          "text": "Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 58:",
          "text": "[…] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195:",
          "text": "Perhaps, however, he could ensure against being completely alone by cultivating the few roods of garden wished upon him.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre."
      ],
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          "acre",
          "acre"
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      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An area of sixty-four square yards."
      ],
      "qualifier": "Chester",
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        "(Chester, historical) An area of sixty-four square yards."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A measure of five and a half yards in length."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dialectal, obsolete) A measure of five and a half yards in length."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "13th century, Edmund of Abingdon (or Anonymous); reproduced in Carleton Fairchild Brown (ed.), English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century (1932), p. 1, from Bodl. MS. Arch. Selden 74, f.55v",
          "roman": "Me reweth, Marie, thi sone and the.",
          "text": "Nou goth sonne under wode,—\nMe reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode.\nNou goth sonne under tre,—"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The human face."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) The human face."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ɹuːd/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːd"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "rude"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "farthingdale"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "day's work"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "daywork"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "farthing"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "ferling"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "farthingdeal"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "farthingdole"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "farundel"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "yard"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "rod"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "tags": [
        "Scottish"
      ],
      "word": "Scottish rood"
    },
    {
      "sense": "quarter of an acre; Israeli",
      "word": "dunam"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "crucifix",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kruis"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "crucifix",
      "word": "krusifiksi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "raspétie",
      "sense": "crucifix",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "распе́тие"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "crucifix",
      "word": "Thánh Giá"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vergée"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ród"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "word": "rūri"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "quarter of an acre",
      "tags": [
        "Jersey",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pèrque"
    }
  ],
  "word": "rood"
}

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