Ridge Definition

rĭj
ridged, ridges, ridging
noun
ridges
A long narrow upper section or crest.
The ridge of a wave.
American Heritage
An animal's spine or back.
Webster's New World
The long, narrow top or crest of something, as of an animal's back, a wave, a mountain, etc.
Webster's New World
A long, narrow elevation of land or a similar range of hills or mountains.
Webster's New World
A narrow, elongated zone of relatively high atmospheric pressure.
American Heritage
Antonyms:
verb
ridged, ridges, ridging
To mark or be marked with a ridge or ridges.
Webster's New World
To form into or furnish with a ridge or ridges.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A surname after a natural landscape feature.

Wiktionary
A male given name transferred from the surname.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Ridge

Noun

Singular:
ridge
Plural:
ridges

Origin of Ridge

  • From Middle English rigge, rygge, (also rig, ryg, rug), from Old English hrycg (“back, spine, ridge, elevated surface"), from Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“back"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreuk-, *(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").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English rigge from Old English hrycg sker-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English.

    From Wiktionary

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