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areed

areed 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 areed

third-person singular presentareeds
present participleareeds
past participleared
pastared

Questions about areed

What is areed the alternative form of?
Areed is the alternative form of aread.

Words near areed in the dictionary

  1. aredd
  2. arede
  3. aredes
  4. areding
  5. AREDYLD
  6. areed
  7. Areegra
  8. areek
  9. areel
  10. areet
  11. arefaction

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: areed (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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