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Added 9 October 2026

ridge

/ɹɪd͡ʒ/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about ridge at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

A long narrow natural elevation or striation.
Any long raised strip.
A long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean.

verb

Extend in ridges.
The land ridges towards the South
Plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip.
Throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides.
He ridged his corn

Origin

From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hryċġ (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrugi, from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krewk-, *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Cognate with Scots rig (“back, spine, ridge”), North Frisian reg (“back”), West Frisian rêch (“back”), Dutch rug (“back, ridge”), German Rücken (“back, ridge”), Swedish rygg (“back, spine, ridge”), Icelandic hryggur (“spine”). Cognate to Albanian kërrus (“to bend one's back”) and kurriz (“back”).

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