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Pronunciation: /rəʊ/

noun

  • a number of people or things in a more or less straight line: her villa stood in a row of similar ones
  • a line of seats in a theatre: they sat in the front row
  • [often in place names] a street with a continuous line of houses along one or both of its sides: he lives at 23 Saville Row
  • a horizontal line of entries in a table: visualize the subject in the form of a sheet of paper divided into columns and rows
  • a complete line of stitches in knitting or crochet.

Phrases

a hard (or tough) row to hoe

a difficult task: the team have a hard row to hoe to get back to the top

in a row

forming a line: four chairs were set in a row
informal in succession: he jumped nineteen clear rounds in a row

Row Z

British informal the back row of seats in a concert hall, theatre, or stadium: they could have snatched a late winner, but he struck his shot into row Z

Origin:

Old English rāw, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rij and German Reihe