lode
UK/ləʊd//loʊd/
lode noun: a way or path; a road.
Noun
lode (plural lodes)
- A way or path; a road.
- A watercourse.
- A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
- The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small...1967, Henry C. Berg, Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14
- A rich source of supply.
- In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.2019 September 25, Gary Stix, “Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets”, in Scientific American
lode meaning in Tamil
lode in Tamil
- உலோகத்தாதுக் கொடுக்கால்
Examples of lode in a sentence
- The lodes lead away north towards Caradhras, and down to darkness.
- Lode mine investors were often distant financiers: soft, pink-handed men who earned their livings with pens, not hammers.
- The researchers searched one organ after another, until they checked the spleen and found the monocytic mother lode.
Forms of lode
| plural | lodes |
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Origin of lode
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
Words formed from lode
Phrases with lode
Words that rhyme with lode
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- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about lode
- What does lode mean?
- Lode means a way or path; a road.
- What is lode in Tamil?
- Lode in Tamil is உலோகத்தாதுக் கொடுக்கால். See Lode meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is lode?
- Lode is a noun.
- How do you pronounce lode?
- Lode is pronounced /ləʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of lode?
- The plural of lode is lodes.
Words near lode in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: lode (page history and authors); lode (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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