ridge

CEFRB2

/ɹɪd͡ʒ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A long, narrow area of high land or raised surface.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.

Examples

  • Is this the bus for Park Ridge?

  • The tower occupied a prominent spot on the ridge.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.

  2. The back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.

  3. The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.

More examples

In context

  • 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.

Antonyms

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Origin

noun

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”).