• IPA^(key): /ɹiːd/

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• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophones: read, reed

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.

• read

rede (uncountable) (archaic or dialectal)

1. Help, advice, counsel.
   • 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 I, scene iii]:

     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.

   • 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:

     When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede"

   • 1954, JRR Tolkien, The Two Towers:

     ‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’

2. Decision, a plan.

From Middle English reden, ræden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise; plot, design; rule, govern, guide; determine, decide, decree; read, explain”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną.

Cognate with German raten, Low German raden, Dutch raden. More at read.

rede (third-person singular simple present redes, present participle reding, simple past and past participle red or redd) (transitive, archaic or UK dialectal)

1. To govern, protect.
2. To discuss, deliberate.
3. To advise.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:

     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

     Meanwhile, his squire found written upon the cross that Bagdemagus should never again return to the court / till he had won a knight's body of the round table, body for body. / “Lo sir,” said his squire, / “here I find writing about you; / therefore I rede you return again to the court.” / “That I never shall,” said Bagdemagus.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Dead Spy”, in The Black Arrow:

     But let me rede you, marry not.

4. To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.
   • 1836, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus:

     The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede.

• -dere, Eder, Reed, de re, deer, dere, dree, reed

From Middle High German reden, from Old High German redōn, rediōn, from reda, redia, radia (“speech, talking”), from Proto-Germanic *raþjǭ, *raþjō (“accountability, speech”). Cognate with German reden.

rede (third-person singular simple present redt, past participle gredt, auxiliary haa)

1. to speak, talk
   • 1902, Robert Walser, Der Teich:

     I cha nit rede. Es drückt mer der Atem ab.

     I cannot speak. It takes my breath away.

From Old Norse hreiðr.

• IPA^(key): /reːðə/, [ˈʁæðð̩]
• Homophone: redde

rede c (singular definite reden, plural indefinite reder)

1. nest (bird-built structure)

• “rede,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Low German rēde, Middle Low German: gerēde, from Old Saxon *girēdi, from Proto-Germanic *raidijaz, *garaidijaz, cognate with English ready, Norwegian grei, Icelandic reiður, Swedish redo.

• IPA^(key): /reːðə/, [ˈʁæðð̩]
• Homophone: redde

rede

1. ready
2. prepared

• “rede,4” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse reiða, from Proto-Germanic *raidijaną (“to arange”), derived from *raidaz, see above.

• IPA^(key): /reːˀ/, [ˈʁæˀ]

rede (past tense redte, past participle redt)

1. to comb (to groom the hair with a toothed implement)
2. to make (a bed)
3. (obsolete) to prepare

• berede
• udrede

• “rede,3” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse reiða, related to the previous word.

• IPA^(key): /reːðə/, [ˈʁæðð̩]
• Homophone: redde

rede (indeclinable)

1. insight, clarification

• redegøre or gøre rede (“to account”)
• urede
• vildrede

• “rede,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ˈreː.də/

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• Hyphenation: re‧de
• Rhymes: -eːdə
• Homophone: reden

From Middle Dutch rēde, from Old Dutch retha, from Proto-Germanic *raþjǭ (“reasoning, account”).

rede f (plural redes or reden, diminutive redetje n)

1. reason (as a concept)
2. address, discourse, speech

• overreden

• Afrikaans: rede

From Middle Dutch rêde. Cognate with Middle Low German rêde, reide (whence German Reede). Further derivation uncertain: Either from Proto-West Germanic *raidu (whence also English road) or derived from Middle Dutch reed (“ready”), modern gereed, bereid. In both cases ultimately related with rijden (“to ride”).

rede f (plural reden or redens, diminutive redetje n)

1. a place to anchor, anchorage

• ree (now literary or dialectal)
• reede (obsolete)

• Afrikaans: rede
• → Indonesian: rede

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rede

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of rijden
2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of reden

• reed

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese rede (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin rēte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrede/ [ˈre.ð̞ɪ]
• Rhymes: -ede
• Hyphenation: re‧de

rede f (plural redes)

1. net (mesh of strings)
2. fishing net (mesh of strings used to trap fish)
   • 1390, J. L. Pensado Tomé, editor, Os Miragres de Santiago. Versión gallega del Códice latino del siglo XII atribuido al papa Calisto I, Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 208:

     Homes sandios et jente louqua, nõ deuedes a chamar Santiago caualeiro mais pescador que leixou o barquo et as redes ẽno mar de Galilea et foyse cõ Nostro Señor, et el fezoo pescador dos homes porque por la sua preegaçõ gaanou moytas almas para el.

     Ignorant men and fool people, you shouldn't call Saint James knight but fisherman, because he left his ship and the nets in the sea of Galilee and went away with Our Lord, and He made him a fisherman of men, because through his preaching he gained many souls for Him

3. network (an interconnected group or system)
4. (Internet) the Net; the Web (the Internet)
5. business chain (businesses with the same brand name)

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “rede”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “rede”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “rede”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “rede”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “rede”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

rede

1. inflection of redar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈreːdə/, [ˈʁeːdə]

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• Homophones: Rede, Reede
• Hyphenation: re‧de

rede

1. inflection of reden:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

From Dutch rede (“anchorage”).

rede (plural rede-rede)

1. (nautical) roads (partly sheltered area of water near a shore in which vessels may ride at anchor)

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɛde
• Hyphenation: rè‧de

Clipping of erede.

rede m or f by sense (plural redi)

1. (obsolete) apheretic form of erede

• rede in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

rede f pl

1. plural of reda

From Old English rēada, from Proto-West Germanic *raudō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ̝ːd(ə)/

rede

1. (hapax legomenon) abomasum

• English: reed, read
• Scots: reid, reed

• “rēde, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

rede

1. alternative form of red (“counsel”)

rede

1. alternative form of red (“reed”)

rede

1. alternative form of red (“red”)

rede

1. alternative form of rade

rede

1. alternative form of reden
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 709:

     Wel coude he rede a lessoun or a storie, [...]

     He well knew how to read a lesson or a story, [...]

   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 3070-3072:

     ‘And, er that we departen from this place,
     I rede that we make, of sorwes two,
     O parfyt Ioye, lasting ever-mo;’ [...]

     ‘And before we depart from this place,
     I advise that we make, of two sorrows,
     One perfect joy, lasting evermore;’ [...]

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rede

Wikipedia ^nb

From Middle Low German rede.

rede (indeclinable)

1. ready
2. prepared

From Old Norse hreiðr.

• reir

rede n (definite singular redet, indefinite plural reder, definite plural reda or redene)

1. a nest (e.g. bird's nest)

From Old Norse reiða.

rede (imperative red, present tense reder, passive redes, simple past and past participle reda or redet, present participle redende)

1. to ascertain
2. to clarify

• “rede” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Galician-Portuguese rede, from Latin rēte.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɦe.dɪ/

rede f (plural redes)

1. net (mesh of strings)
   1. (fishing) ellipsis of rede de pesca (“fishing net”)
   2. (sports) net (mesh behind the goal frame)
   3. hairnet (netting worn over one's hair)
2. (figurative) sieve (something that catches and filters everything)
3. (figurative) web; net; a trap

   Synonyms: cilada, armadilha, ardil

4. hammock (suspended bed or couch made of cloth or netting)

   Synonyms: rede de dormir, rede de descanso

5. network (an interconnected group or system)
   1. (business) chain (businesses with the same brand name)
   2. (broadcasting) network (group of affiliated television stations)
   3. (networking) (computers and other devices connected together to share information)
   4. (Internet) the Net; the Web (the Internet)

      Synonyms: Internet, Web, Net

   5. an infrastructural system

      Synonym: sistema

      A rede de esgotos. ― The sewer system.

rede

1. inflection of redar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “rede”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “rede”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

rede (Cyrillic spelling реде)

1. vocative singular of red

From Old Norse hreiðr.

rede n

1. A bird's nest.

• eder