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ridder

ridder noun: a sieve.

Noun (1)

ridder (plural ridders)

  1. (dialectal) a sieve

Verb

ridder (third-person singular simple present ridders, present participle riddering, simple past and past participle riddered)

  1. (transitive) to sieve; sift; riddle

Noun (2)

ridder (plural ridders)

  1. One who, or that which, rids.

Proper noun capitalized: Ridder

Ridder (plural Ridders)

  1. A city in East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan; formerly, Leninogorsk.
  2. A surname.

Forms of ridder

Noun
pluralridders
Verb
third-person singular presentridders
present participleriddering
past participleriddered
pastriddered
Proper noun
pluralRidders

Origin of ridder

From Middle English ridder, rydder, from Old English hridder (“sieve”) (also as Old English hriddel > English riddle (“sieve”)), from Proto-West Germanic *hrīdrā, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrą, *hrīdrǭ (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to divide; part; separate; sift”). Cognate with German Reiter (“sieve”).

From Middle English riddren, from Old English hridrian, from Proto-Germanic *hrīdrōną (“to sieve; sift”), from the noun. See above.

From rid + -er.

Questions about ridder

What does ridder mean?
Ridder means a sieve.
What part of speech is ridder?
Ridder can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of ridder?
The plural of ridder is ridders.

Words near ridder in the dictionary

  1. ridden up
  2. ridden up on
  3. ridden with
  4. ridden with the punches
  5. riddenness
  6. ridder
  7. riddered
  8. riddering
  9. Ridderkerk
  10. ridders
  11. riddest

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