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arede

arede is the alternative form of aread.

Meaning of aread

Verb

aread (third-person singular simple present areads, present participle areading, simple past and past participle ared)

  1. (obsolete) To soothsay, prophesy.
  2. (obsolete) To interpret; to explain.
    • Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case.1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the Death of the Noble and Vertuous Douglas Howard,Daughter and Heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and Wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier....
  3. (obsolete) To advise, counsel.
    • Me, all too meane, the ſacred Muſe areeds
      To blazon broad emongſt her learned throng:1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1

Forms of arede

third-person singular presentaredes
present participleareding
past participlearedd
pastaredd

Questions about arede

What is arede the alternative form of?
Arede is the alternative form of aread.

Words near arede in the dictionary

  1. arecoline
  2. arecolines
  3. Arecuna
  4. ared
  5. aredd
  6. arede
  7. aredes
  8. areding
  9. AREDYLD
  10. areed
  11. Areegra

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Adapted from Wiktionary: arede (page history and authors); aread (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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