rand

Meaning

Noun

1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
2. (dialectal, obsolete) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
3. (UK, dialectal, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
5. A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

Verb

To rant; to storm.

Synonyms

brink

edge

rim

brim

border

margin

mountain chain

mountain range

nook

outskirts

selvage

stigmatize

welt

chain of mountains

selvedge

Witwatersrand

edging

extremes

fringe

latus

Translations

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راند

bergketen

rand corporation

rand sudafricano

labrum

limbus

ora

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹænd/

Etymology

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.