Dictionary

rye en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• rī
• (US) audio
• /ɹaɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English rye, rie, from Old English ryġe, from Proto-West Germanic *rugi, from Proto-Germanic *rugiz. Germanic cognates include Dutch and West Frisian rogge, Low German Rogg, German Roggen, Rocken, Old Norse rugr (Danish rug, Swedish råg); non-Germanic cognates include Russian рожь (rožʹ) and Latvian rudzi.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
   • They bought a sack of rye and a sack of wheat with the intent to try their hand at milling and baking.
   • Sing a ſong of ſixpence, a bag full of rye. 1795, Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus, Stockton: R. Christopher, page 28:
2. (countable, uncountable) The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
   • This field will be planted to rye next spring.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of rye bread.
   alt of rye bread
   • Customer: A tuna sandwich, please. Waiter: Sure, hon. You want that on white, wheat, or rye?
4. (Canada, US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable) Ellipsis of rye whiskey, whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain.
   alt of rye whiskey
   alt of whiskey made mainly or wholly from rye grain
   • “Gimme a shot of rye.” The whiskey stung his throat hot and fragrant. 1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 2nd section, page 146:
   • He likes any whiskey, but his favorite is rye.
   • I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter. 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 159:
   • Them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey ’n rye/Singin’, "This’ll be the day that I die." 1971, “American Pie”, in American Pie, performed by Don McLean:
5. (Canada, US, countable) A drink (serving) of rye whiskey.
   • It concerns the gnomelike quality of the average American at a party. I have been to many parties where staid American business men have been transformed by a few ryes or bourbons into unpredictable gremlins out for adventure. 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 17:
   • I'll have a rye, neat, please.
6. (broadly, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable) Caraway (from the mistaken assumption that the whole seeds, often used to season rye bread, are the rye itself)
7. (broadly, countable, proscribed, sometimes, uncountable) Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium.
8. (countable, uncountable) A disease of hawks.
   • Of all the diseases that belongs to these Hawkes, there bee onely three that they bee most subiect vnto, which is the Rye, the Crampe, and the Craye. 1618, Symon Latham, Latham's Falconry:
   • And if it [vndeꝛ the peꝛch] be grene ſhe engenderith the Ry. The condicion of this euell is this, it wil ariſe in the hede and make the hede to ſwell, ⁊ the iyen all glaymous, and dyrke, and bot it haue helpe: it will downe in to the legges, and maake the legges to rancle, and if it goo fro the legges in to the hede a gayne, thi hawke is bot looſt. 1486, Juliana Berners, Book of Saint Albans:
9. (countable, qualifier:gypsy slang, uncountable) A young man.
   • The Rye is my uncle, Hans Breitmann, Mr. Leland, whom all the Romanies know. His gipsy lore was great; […] 1893, Elizabeth Robins Pennell, To Gipsyland, page 2:

Forms

Coordinates

rawnie · wheat · maize · pumpernickel · corn · wheat · barley · white

Deriveds

ryemeal · wild rye · Romany rye · ryegrass · rye seed · rye flake · ryelage · rock and rye · rye flour · ryeflour · rye grass · rye-worm · rye wolf · Robin's rye · rye bread

Hypernyms

food · corn · bread · grain · cereal

Hyponyms

Romany rye

Translations (122)

pms seil (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · el σίκαλη (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · he שיפון (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · gl centeo (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · hy տարեկան (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · lbe сус (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · nb rug (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kk арыс (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ro secară (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ms rai (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · bg ръж (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kmr şilêl (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ary سويڭلة f. شقيلية (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sh ра̑ж (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · be жы́та (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · nl rogge (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · fy rogge (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · es centeno (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · lt rugiai (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · yue 黑麥 /黑麦 (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · vo sägul (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · pt centeio (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kmr baçîk (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ce ӏаьржа кӏа (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · vi lúa mạch đen (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · la sēcale (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ar سُلْت (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · gl cebeira (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · cs žito (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kw sugal (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · eo sekalo (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ca sègol (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · alt арыш (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · hsb žito (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kmr açar (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · dsb žyto (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · av огоб (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · fa چاودار (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ml ശീമവരക് (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ja 黒麦 (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sl ŕž (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · is rúgur (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · az çovdar (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · hi नीवारिका (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ang ryġe (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · tt арыш (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ru жи́то (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ota چاودار (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · id gandum hitam (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · hy աշորա (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · hu rozs (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · enm rye (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · rgn sēgval (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ru рожь (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · fr seigle (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · mi rai (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ar جَاوْدَار (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · koi сю (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · lv rudzi (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kpv сю (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · mhn rocken (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · cmn 黑麥 /黑麦 (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · udm ӟег (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sq thekën (gheg) (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · mrj ыржа (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · haw palaoa ʻeleʻele (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · tl senteno (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ja ライムギ (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · mk ’рж (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · pdt Rogg (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sh rȃž (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · fi ruis (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · cy rhyg (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · gd seagal (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · wa waessén (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · wa swele (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · it segale (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · de Roggen (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · mhr уржа (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · uk жи́то (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kk қарабидай (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ltg rudzi (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · dsb rež (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · fo rugur (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · br segal (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · yi קאָרן (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sv råg (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sk raž (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · pl żyto (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · cv ыраш (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · wa rigon (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · tr çavdar (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · vo glön (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · oc segal (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · non rugr (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ga seagal (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kmr tarîgan (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ba арыш (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sk žito (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · tyv көк-тараа (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ady хьэпцӏий (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · fur siale (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · krl ruis (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · et rukis (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · da rug (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kpv рудзӧг (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ko 호밀 (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ar شَيْلَم (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ast centén (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · gv shoggyl (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · crh арыш (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · sq thekër (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · nn rug (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · lt rugys (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · hsb rožka (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · ka ჭვავი (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · kmr çewder (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · grc βρίζα (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · lmo segra (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · dar сусул (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · eu zekale (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food) · lij seiga (the grass Secale cereale or its grains as food)

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