ringed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪŋd/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋd

Adjective

ringed (not comparable)

1. Marked with rings, circles, or loops.
2. (literary, archaic) Wearing a wedding ring; hence, lawfully wedded.
   • 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

     I was born of a true man and a ring'd wife, and I can't argue upon it; but I and my old woman 'ud burn upon it, that would we.

Derived terms

• blue-ringed octopus
• eye-ringed flatbill
• little ringed plover
• nose-ringed
• ringed dove
• ringed kingfisher
• ringed paper wasp
• ringed plover
• ringed seal
• ringed snake
• ringed spinytail iguana
• ringed worm
• rose-ringed parakeet

 

Translations

marked with rings, circles, or loops

• French: annelé (fr)
• Irish: fáinneach
• Latin: ānulātus

wearing a wedding ring; lawfully wedded

Verb

ringed

1. simple past and past participle of ring (circled, enclosed)

Anagrams

• Ginder, Reding, dering, dinger, engird, girned, grinde, reding