rath
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/ɹɑːθ/
(UK)
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/ɹɑːθ/ (UK) · /ɹæθ/ (US)
Definition of rath
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(historical)A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
“There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.”
“Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.”
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noun
-
(historical)A walled enclosure, especially in Ireland; a ringfort built sometime between the Iron Age and the Viking Age.
“There are numerous Danish raths in the parish.”
“Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage—mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth’s colonial grants—linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and “little people” of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations.”
- A Burmese carriage of state.
adj
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of rathe.
name
- A surname from German.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Irish ráth.
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