Rye Definition

rī
noun
A hardy cereal grass (Secale cereale) widely grown for its grain and straw.
Webster's New World
The grain or seeds of this plant, used for making flour and whiskey, and as feed for livestock.
Webster's New World
Whiskey distilled wholly or chiefly from this grain.
Webster's New World

Rye bread.

Webster's New World
A Romani man.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Rye

Noun

Singular:
rye
Plural:
ryes

Origin of Rye

  • From Old English ryġe, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz. Cognates include Germanic Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg), German Roggen, Dutch rogge and from non-Germanic Indo-European Russian рожь (rož') and Old Prussian rugis.

    From Wiktionary

  • Romani rai from Sanskrit rājā king raja

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

  • Middle English from Old English ryge

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

Rye Sentence Examples

  • The rye crop was 148,000 bushels, and the acreage 11,000.

  • Wheat, maize, oats, barley and rye are the chief agricultural products.

  • The lower valley of the Hudson is noted for its crops, of rye.

  • The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.

  • Facing him lay a field of winter rye, there his own huntsman stood alone in a hollow behind a hazel bush.

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Words Starting With

RRYRYE

Words Ending With

EYERYE

Unscrambles

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Words Starting With R and Ending With E

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3 Letter Words3 Letter Words Starting With R3 Letter Words Ending With E