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Definitions for Row

[1] a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
[2] a line of persons or things so arranged: The petitioners waited in a row.
[3] a line of adjacent seats facing the same way, as in a theater: seats in the third row of the balcony.
[4] a street formed by two continuous lines of buildings.
[5] Music . tone row.
[6] Checkers . one of the horizontal lines of squares on a checkerboard; rank.
[7] to put in a row (often followed by up ).
[8] 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.
[9] to propel a vessel by the leverage of an oar or the like.
[10] to propel (a vessel) by the leverage of an oar or the like.
[11] to convey in a boat that is rowed.
[12] to convey or propel (something) in a manner suggestive of rowing.
[13] to require, use, or be equipped with (a number of oars): The captain's barge rowed twenty oars.
[14] to use (oarsmen) for rowing.
[15] to perform or participate in by rowing: to row a race.
[16] to row against in a race: Oxford rows Cambridge.
[17] an act, instance, or period of rowing: It was a long row to the far bank.
[18] an excursion in a rowboat: to go for a row.
[19] a noisy dispute or quarrel; commotion.
[20] noise or clamor.
[21] to quarrel noisily.
[22] Chiefly British . to upbraid severely; scold.
[23] an arrangement of persons or things in a line a row of chairs
[24] mainly British a street, esp a narrow one lined with identical houses (capital when part of a street name ) Church Row
[25] a line of seats, as in a cinema, theatre, etc
[26] maths a horizontal linear arrangement of numbers, quantities, or terms, esp in a determinant or matrix
[27] a horizontal rank of squares on a chessboard or draughtboard
[28] in a row in succession; one after the other he won two gold medals in a row
[29] a hard row to hoe a difficult task or assignment
[30] a noisy quarrel or dispute
[31] a noisy disturbance; commotion we couldn't hear the music for the row next door
[32] a reprimand
[33] give someone a row informal to scold someone; tell someone off
[34] (intr often foll by with ) to quarrel noisily
[35] (tr) archaic to reprimand
[36] to propel (a boat) by using oars
[37] (tr) to carry (people, goods, etc) in a rowing boat
[38] to be propelled by means of (oars or oarsmen)
[39] (intr) to take part in the racing of rowing boats as a sport, esp in eights, in which each member of the crew pulls one oar Compare scull (def. 6)
[40] (tr) to race against in a boat propelled by oars Oxford row Cambridge every year
[41] an act, instance, period, or distance of rowing
[42] an excursion in a rowing boat

Words related to Row

tier, line, succession, quarrel, trouble, controversy, squabble, dispute, swim, sail, paddle, string, chain, column, rank, echelon, queue, range, train, file

Words nearby Row

rover boy, roving, roving commission, rovno, rovuma, row, row house, row over, row vector, rowan, rowboat

Origin of Row

3First recorded in 1740–50; origin uncertain

Other words from Row

row·a·ble , adjective
row·er , noun
un·der·row·er , noun

Word origin for Row

Old English rōwan ; related to Middle Dutch roien , Middle High German rüejen , Old Norse rōa , Latin rēmus oar

Synonyms for Row

line, succession, tier, bank, chain, column, echelon, file, order, progression, queue, range, rank, string, train, consecution