rident

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ridens, present participle of ridere (“to laugh”).

Adjective

rident (comparative more rident, superlative most rident)

1. laughing

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “rident”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Tinder, dirten, tinder, trined

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁid/

Verb

rident

1. third-person plural present indicative of rider
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of rider

Anagrams

• dirent
• rendit, rendît

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) rīdent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of rīdeō