a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row.
a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony.
a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
Music. tone row.
Checkers. one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
verb (used with object)
to put in a row (often followed by up).
Idioms for row
hard / long row to hoe, a difficult task or set of circumstances to confront: At 32 and with two children, she found attending medical school a hard row to hoe.
Origin of row
1
First recorded in 1200–50; Middle English reue, reuwe, rou(e) “row, line, rank (line of soldiers),” Old English rǣw, rāw; akin to Middle Dutch rije, Middle High German rīhe, German Reihe “row”
to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
verb (used with object)
to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
to convey in a boat that is rowed.
to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars): The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
to perform or participate in by rowing: to row a race.
to row against in a race: Oxford rows Cambridge.
noun
an act, instance, or period of rowing: It was a long row to the far bank.
an excursion in a rowboat: to go for a row.
Origin of row
2
First recorded before 950; Middle English rouen, rouwen, Old English rōwan “to go by water, sail, row”; cognate with Old Norse rōa; akin to Latin rēmus, Greek eretmón, both meaning “oar”; see also rudder
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