raid

English Online Dictionary. What means raid‎? What does raid mean?

English

Alternative forms

• rade (Scotland)

Etymology

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.

   Synonyms: attack, foray, incursion
2. (law enforcement) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.

   Synonym: irruption
3. (sports) An attacking movement.
4. (Internet slang) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
5. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

1. (transitive) To engage in a raid against.

2. (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
3. (transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.

Derived terms

• caught raiding the cookie jar
• raider
• ramraid

Descendants

• → Spanish: raid
• → French: raid
• → Italian: raid
• → Polish: rajd
• → Romanian: raid
• → Swedish: räd

Translations

Anagrams

• Radi, Rida, arid, dira, Dair, dari, riad, Aird, Irad, Dari, IARD

Basque

Etymology

From Spanish raid, from English raid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rai̯d/, [rai̯ð̞]

Noun

raid inan

1. (military) raid

   Synonym: razzia

2. long-distance race, rally

Declension

Further reading

• “raid”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛd/
• Homophones: raide, raides, raids

Noun

raid m (plural raids)

1. (military) raid

Derived terms

Further reading

• “raid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• dira, rida

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrajd/, /ˈrɛjd/, /ˈrejd/
• Rhymes: -ajd, -ɛjd, -ejd
• Hyphenation: ràid

Noun

raid m (invariable)

1. raid, incursion
2. long-distance race or rally

References

Anagrams

• Idra, ardi, ardì, dari, dirà, idra, radi, rida, ridà

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French raid, from English raid, from Scots raid.

Noun

raid n (plural raiduri)

1. raid

Declension

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English rade, northern variant of rode, from Old English rād.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /red/

Noun

raid (plural raids)

1. raid

Descendants

• → English: raid, rade (Scotland)
  • → Spanish: raid
  • → French: raid
  • → Italian: raid
  • → Polish: rajd
  • → Romanian: raid
  • → Swedish: räd

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraid/ [ˈrai̯ð̞]
• Rhymes: -aid
• Syllabification: raid

Noun

raid m (plural raides)

1. raid (military)
2. attempt
3. long-distance race

Further reading

• “raid”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *raita, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *spraiþō.

Noun

raid

1. willow

Inflection