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reding

reding is the present participle and gerund of rede.

Meaning of rede

Verb

rede (third-person singular simple present redes, present participle reding, simple past and past participle red or redd)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To govern, protect.
  2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To discuss, deliberate.
  3. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To advise.
    • The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a knyȝtes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that...1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter V, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV
  4. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive) To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.
    • The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede.1836, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus

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Proper noun capitalized: Reding

Reding (plural Redings)

  1. A surname.
  2. (misspelling) Misspelling of Reading.

Forms of reding

pluralRedings

Questions about reding

What does reding mean?
Reding means a surname.
What is reding the present participle and gerund of?
Reding is the present participle and gerund of rede.
What part of speech is reding?
Reding is a proper noun.

Words near reding in the dictionary

  1. redimerize
  2. rediminish
  3. rediminished
  4. rediminishes
  5. rediminishing
  6. reding
  7. Redingensian
  8. Redingensians
  9. Redinger
  10. Redingers
  11. redingot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reding (page history and authors); Reding (page history and authors); rede (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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