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

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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

Singular:

ridge

Plural:

ridges

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 kÃ«rrus (“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