English Explanatory Dictionary

order

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
  2. A position in an arrangement, disposition, or sequence.
  3. The state of being well arranged.
  4. Conformity with law or decorum; freedom from disturbance; general tranquillity; public quiet.
  5. A command.
  6. A request for some product or service; a commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods.
  7. A group of religious adherents, especially monks or nuns, set apart within their religion by adherence to a particular rule or set of principles.
  8. An association of knights.
  9. Any group of people with common interests.
  10. A decoration, awarded by a government, a dynastic house, or a religious body to an individual, usually for distinguished service to a nation or to humanity.
  11. A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below class and above family; a taxon at that rank.
  12. A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position; a rank; a row; a grade; especially, a rank or class in society; a distinct character, kind, or sort.
verb
  1. To set in some sort of order.
  2. To arrange, set in proper order.
  3. To issue a command to; to charge.
  4. To request some product or service; to secure by placing an order.
  5. To admit to holy orders; to ordain; to receive into the ranks of the ministry.
name
  1. The Order of the Arrow.

Pronunciation

/ˈɔː.də/ /ˈoɹ.dɚ/ [ˈoɹ.ɾɚ] en-us-order.ogg /ˈoː.də/ [ˈoː.ɾə] en-au-order.ogg /ˈɔːdə(r)/

Word forms

order orders ordre ordering ordered no-table-tags glossary orderest orderedst ordereth the Order

Etymology

From Middle English ordre, from Old French ordre, ordne, ordene (“order, rank”), from Latin ōrdinem, accusative of ōrdō (“row, rank, regular arrangement”, literally “row of threads in a loom”), from Proto-Italic *ordō (“to arrange”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂or-d-, from *h₂er-. Related to Latin ōrdior (“begin”, literally “begin to weave”). In sense “request for purchase”, compare bespoke. Doublet of ordo. Compare typologically Russian поря́док (porjádok) (akin to ряд (rjad)).

Synonyms

ordo association brotherhood league sisterhood society degree sort rank command

Antonyms

chaos disorder

Related words

ordain orderly ordinal ordinary

Derived words

Ancient and Honorable Order of Turtles bankruptcy order bit order blanket order bring to order byte order call to order cancelled to order close-order drill close order drill come to order delivery order eigenorder engine order telegraph established order extended order drill extended-order drill extreme risk protection order final order cutoff first-order first order of the day first order stream fraternal birth-order effect gavel to order get one's affairs in order get one's house in order higher-order high order bit hold-departure order hyper-order infra-order in order in-order in order for in order that in order to in rag order in short order international order keep order law and order law-and-order made-to-order story mail-order bride metaorder monadic second-order logic multi-order multi-order picking oblique order one's house in order on order on the order of order arms orderboard order book order form order in order in council order-in-council orderite

Translations

Bulgarian: поря́дък Catalan: ordre Czech: řád Danish: orden Dutch: orde Finnish: aste French: ordre French: degré German: Ordnung German: Grad Hungarian: fok Norwegian Bokmål: orden Romanian: ordin Russian: сте́пень Tagalog: kasunran Albanian: rëndit Arabic: رَتَّبَ Bulgarian: привеждам в ред Bulgarian: подреждам Catalan: ordenar Catalan: disposar Catalan: endreçar Catalan: arranjar Catalan: endegar Czech: uspořádat Danish: ordne Dutch: ordenen Egyptian: g:r-grg Esperanto: aranĝi Esperanto: ordigi Estonian: korrastama Estonian: järjestama Faroese: skipa Finnish: järjestää French: ranger French: ordonner Friulian: ordenâ German: ordnen German: anordnen Greek: κανονίζω Greek: καθορίζω Hebrew: סִדֵּר Hungarian: rendez Hungarian: sorba rak/rendez Hungarian: elrendez Hungarian: rendbe rak Icelandic: raða Icelandic: panta Indonesian: mengatur Interlingua: ordinar Italian: ordinare Khmer: ផ្ទាប់ Khmer: រៀង Khmer: រៀបរៀង Khmer: ប្រដាប់ Khmer: តំរៀប Latin: ōrdinō Latin: dispōnō Latin: repōnō Māori: whakaraupapa Norman: ordonner Norwegian: ordne Pennsylvania German: aabefehle Polish: ustawić Polish: ustawiać Polish: organizować Polish: zorganizować Polish: porządkować Polish: uporządkować Portuguese: ordenar Russian: упоря́дочивать Russian: упоря́дочить Russian: выстра́ивать Russian: вы́строить Russian: приводи́ть в поря́док Russian: привести́ в поря́док Northern Sami: ordnet Scottish Gaelic: òrdaich Serbo-Croatian: посло̀жити Serbo-Croatian: посла́гати Serbo-Croatian: poslòžiti Serbo-Croatian: poslágati Serbo-Croatian: уре́дити Serbo-Croatian: уређи́вати Serbo-Croatian: uréditi Serbo-Croatian: uređívati Spanish: ordenar Spanish: poner en orden Swahili: oda Swedish: ordna Telugu: అమర్చు Vietnamese: xếp Vietnamese: đặt Welsh: trefnu
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