- a number of people standing or sitting next to each other in a line; a number of objects arranged in a line
- row of somebody/something There is a row of trees in front of the house.
- in a row We sat in a row at the back of the room.
- The vegetables were planted in neat rows.
- row upon row of somebody/something He looked down at row upon row of eager faces.
Homophones rose | rowsrose rows/rəʊz//rəʊz/Extra Examples- She arranged the chairs in two neat rows.
- The children stood in a row.
- endless rows of identical houses
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bottom
- middle
- top
- …
- in a/the row1
- row1 of
- the end of the row
- the middle of the row
- rows and rows
- …
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- a line of seats in a cinema, theatre, etc.
- in the… row Let's sit in the back row.
- We have seats in the front row.
- Our seats are five rows from the front.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bottom
- middle
- top
- …
- in a/the row1
- row1 of
- the end of the row
- the middle of the row
- rows and rows
- …
- a line of numbers or words arranged one after the other across the page in a table
- The top row of Table 2 shows the current values.
- There are eight rows and four columns in the table.
- You can insert rows between existing ones.
- a complete line of stitches in knitting or crochet (= ways of making clothing, etc. out of wool)
- Rowused in the name of some roads
- Manor Row
- I live at 22 Western Row.
- [usually singular] an act of rowing a boat; the period of time spent doing this
- We went for a row on the lake.
see also death row, skid row
Word Originnoun senses 1 to 4 Old English rāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rij and German Reihe. noun sense 5 Old English rōwan, of Germanic origin; related to rudder; from an Indo-European root shared by Latin remus ‘oar’, Greek eretmon ‘oar’.
Idioms
See row in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee row in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishget/have (all) your ducks in a row
- (especially North American English) to have made all the preparations needed to do something; to be well organized
- The company has its ducks in a row for a move into the Asian market.
- Get your ducks in a row before you retire.
in a row
- if something happens several times in a row, it happens in exactly the same way each time, and nothing different happens in the time between
- This is her third win in a row.
- if something happens for several days, etc. in a row, it happens on each of those days
- Inflation has fallen for the third month in a row.
- It rained for five days in a row.
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