Rode Meaning
/ɹəʊd/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbsimple past of ride
verbpast participle of ride
Sentence Examples
On my way home, I fell asleep on the train and rode past my station.
I rode with her as far as the station.
She rode off down the road with the dog running behind.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He ____ his bicycle along the path every day, using the pedals to move.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ her bicycle to work every morning regardless of the weather.
Word Origin & History
In place names, from Old English *rodu (“clearing”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]"
— 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute […] , page 26:
"We dined at Martin's, and then came on to father Low's: we have rode but eight miles this day."
— 1827 [1780], Francis Asbury, The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury […] , volume II:
"I have rode with the Kings, man, and I have rode with the best! I know what the truth is, and the truth is that I count and you don't."
— 2014 May 5, Eric Bogosian, 100 (monologues), Theatre Communications Group, →ISBN, page 100:
""When the sun rises we shall have some splendid play. Only hear the woodcock, how he is roading; he expects fine weather.""
— 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 85:
"Thomas Carlysle, &c. rode a Forrey to Dunglas, and there seased and brought away 80 Nolt, 200 Shepe, 22 Naggs. A Rode made to a Stede called the Hayrebed, and there they gate 30 Nolt, 3 or 4 Naggs."
— 1544 October 23, Lord Evre, Letters:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He ____ his bicycle along the path every day, using the pedals to move.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She ____ her bicycle to work every morning regardless of the weather.