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rudd

/ɹʌd/

rudd noun: any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.

rudd: any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius
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Noun

rudd (plural rudds or rudd)

  1. Any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
    • Within minutes of starting I had my first fish a rudd about a pound, this was followed by a tench about five pounds.2007, Martin James, “At the Waters Edge blog!”, in BBC - Lancashire - Sport, retrieved 02 Aug 2010
    1. common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

Proper noun capitalized: Rudd

Rudd

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
    • I’m not surprised that Rudd seizes on my accent – his parents were British Jews from Edgware and Surbiton, and while Rudd was born in New Jersey in 1969 and raised in the US, he was often in Britain as a kid to visit relatives in London’s less glamorous suburbs and Basingstoke.2015 July 9, Hadley Freeman, “Paul Rudd on Ant-Man, being Hollywood’s go-to nice guy and growing up with English parents in Kansas”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2018
  2. A minor city in Floyd County, Iowa, United States.

rudd meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

rudd in Hindi

रुड

rudd in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

rudd in Urdu

رڈ

rudd in Telugu

రుడ్
More languagesFewer languages
rudd in Kannada
ರುಡ್
rudd in Punjabi
ਰੁੱਡ, ਰੁਡ

Forms of rudd

pluralrudds
pluralrudd

Plural of rudd: rudds or rudd

Origin of rudd

Akin to rud, ruddy, ruddock. Via Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (whence also red) cognate with German Rotfeder, Irish ruán, Slovene rdečeperka. Compare typologically Bulgarian червеноперка (červenoperka) (<+ червен (červen)), Macedonian црвеноперка (crvenoperka) (<+ црвен (crven)), Russian краснопёрка (krasnopjórka) (<+ красный (krasnyj)); Turkish kızılkanat (kızıl + kanat).

Originally a nickname from Middle English, meaning "red".

Words formed from rudd

Words that rhyme with rudd

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Questions about rudd

What does rudd mean?
Rudd means any species of the freshwater game fishes of genus Scardinius.
What is rudd in Hindi?
Rudd in Hindi is रुड. See Rudd meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is rudd?
Rudd can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce rudd?
Rudd is pronounced /ɹʌd/.
What is the plural of rudd?
The plural of rudd is rudds.

Words near rudd in the dictionary

  1. rudas
  2. Rudbaxton
  3. Rudbeck
  4. rudbeckia
  5. rudbeckias
  6. rudd
  7. Rudd's mice
  8. Rudd's mouse
  9. rudded
  10. Ruddell
  11. Ruddells

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rudd (page history and authors); Rudd (page history and authors); rudd (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rudd (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rudd (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rudd (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rudd (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rudd (Punjabi, 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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