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rand

[ɹʷeənd] ~ [ɹʷɛənd]UK/ɹænd/

rand noun: the border of an area of land, now especially marshland.

Noun (1)

rand (plural rands)

  1. The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
    • at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh
    • Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.1963, Field Studies [Council of Great Britain], volume 1, page 132
  2. (dialectal, obsolete) A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
    • They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC...
  3. (UK, dialectal, rare) A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
    • They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.1867, Anderson, Rhymes, page 44
  4. A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
  5. (basket-making) A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.

Noun (2)

rand (plural rands or rand)

  1. A rocky slope, especially the area over a river valley; specifically, the Rand
  2. The currency of South Africa, divided into 100 cents.

Verb

rand (third-person singular simple present rands, present participle randing, simple past and past participle randed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To rant; to storm.
    • […] I ſmelt out my noble ſtincker Greenſheild in his Chamber, and as tho my heart ſtringes had bin crackt, I vvept, & thumpd, and thumpd, and rau'd and randed, and raild, and told him hovv my vvife vvas novv grovvne as common as baibery, and that ſhee had hierd her Taylor to ride vvith her to...c. 1601 (date written), Thomas Decker [i.e., Thomas Dekker]; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], North-ward Hoe. […], London: […] G[eorge] Eld, published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signatures F, verso – F2...

Noun (3)

rand (plural rands)

  1. A random number.

Noun (4) capitalized: Rand

Rand (plural Rand)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of rand (the currency of south Africa)

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Rand

the Rand

  1. (South Africa) The Witwatersrand, a gold-mining geographic area also known as the Reef in the province of Gauteng, South Africa, of which the principal city is Johannesburg.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Rand

Rand

  1. A surname.
  2. A diminutive of the male given names Randall and Randolph.
    • In a Fox Business interview on Tuesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) alluded to the distinction between private and government responses to offensive speech, but his comments were ambiguous enough that an uncharitable viewer could easily interpret them as approval of the latter.2025 September 16, Jacob Sullum, “Brendan Carr and Ted Cruz Don't Think Charlie Kirk's Murder Justifies Speech Restrictions”, in Reason
  3. A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1078).
  4. A small town in Federation council area, southern New South Wales, Australia.
  5. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Colorado, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas, United States.
  7. A census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States.

Adjective capitalized: RAND

RAND (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of reasonable and nondiscriminatory: a standard used with respect to licensing.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: RAND

RAND

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Research and Development: a nonprofit global policy think tank.

rand meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

rand in Hindi

numismatics of South Africa
रेंड reṇḍ

rand in Tamil

ரேண்ட், ராண்ட்

rand in Marathi

रॅंड, रँड

rand in Urdu

رینڈ, ریانڈ, رانڈ
More languagesFewer languages
rand in Bengali
র্যান্ড, রান্ড, র্যাণ্ড
rand in Telugu
రాండ్, ర్యాండ్, రాండ్కు
rand in Malayalam
റാൻഡ്, രാൻഡ്
rand in Kannada
ರಾಂಡ್, ರ್ಯಾಂಡ್, ರಾಂಡ್ಗೆ
rand in Punjabi
ਰੈਂਡ, ਰੰਡ, ਰੈਂਡ ਤੱਕ
rand in Gujarati
રેન્ડ, રેંડ, રૅન્ડ
rand in Odia
ରାଣ୍ଡ୍, ରାଣ୍ଡ, ରେଣ୍ଡକୁ
rand in Nepali
र्यान्ड, रेन्ड, रान्ड
rand in Arabic
رَانْد rand
rand in Malay
rand

Examples of rand in a sentence

  • Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.1984, Herman W. Gabriel, Glossary of Landscape & Vegetation Ecology for Alaska, page 64, entry "lagg":
  • […] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.2013, Peter D. Moore, European Mires, page 288:

All 10 example sentences with rand

Forms of rand

Noun
pluralrands
pluralrand
pluralRand
Verb
third-person singular presentrands
present participleranding
past participleranded
pastranded

Plural of rand: rands

Origin of rand

From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.

Named after Witwatersrand; the last element is Afrikaans rand (“ridge”), from Dutch rand, from Old Saxon rand, from Germanic *randaz. Compare Etymology 1, and Rand. The sense of currency is because of gold that was extracted from the Witwatersrand rocks.

See rant.

Words formed from rand

Phrases with rand

Words that rhyme with rand

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Questions about rand

What does rand mean?
Rand means the border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
What is rand in Hindi?
Rand in Hindi is रेंड (reṇḍ). See Rand meaning in Hindi.
How do you use rand in a sentence?
Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.
What part of speech is rand?
Rand can be a noun, a verb, a proper noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce rand?
Rand is pronounced /ɹænd/ (UK).
What is the plural of rand?
The plural of rand is rands.

Words near rand in the dictionary

  1. rancourously
  2. rancourousness
  3. rancours
  4. Rancourt
  5. Rancourts
  6. rand
  7. Rand formula
  8. Randa
  9. Randal
  10. Randal's man
  11. Randall

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rand (page history and authors); Rand (page history and authors); RAND (page history and authors); rand (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rand (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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