Definitions for ROW

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ROW row

Spelling: [roh]

IPA: /roʊ/

Row is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in ROW (orw).

Definitions for ROW

noun

1. a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line:
2. a line of persons or things so arranged:
3. a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater:
4. a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
5. Music. tone row.
6. Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
7. an act, instance, or period of rowing:
8. an excursion in a rowboat:
9. a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
10. noise or clamor.

Idioms

1. hard / long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront:

verb (used with object)

1. to put in a row (often followed by up).
2. to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
3. to convey in a boat that is rowed.
4. to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
5. to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars):
6. to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
7. to perform or participate in by rowing:
8. to row against in a race:
9. Chiefly British. to upbraid severely; scold.

verb (used without object)

1. to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
2. to quarrel noisily.

Origin of ROW

1175-1225; Middle English row(e); compare Old English rǣw

Examples for ROW

In a row against the wall stood seven little beds recently covered with sheets.

A boat was got ready, and the captain got in, with four sailors to row.

Doing three in a row got a momentum going and I want to keep that momentum going.

Then they disappeared like a row of post-holes into the distance.

The train was drawn up, with hardly anybody about its row of open doors.

Later that day he made a call from the row of phones in the yard and reached his wife for the first time in six months.

I promise you I shall not, Mr. Bines; they can row if they like.

Detainees forced to stand on broken legs, or go 180 hours in a row without sleep.

First, seeing my father in the middle of his row crying, and thinking, Why is dad so upset?

This box was lined with a row of bunks, one above the other.