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rando

See also: Rando

English edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

random +‎ -o (“(colloquial); person with characteristic”); compare sicko, weirdo. From early 2000s.

Adjective edit

rando (comparative more rando, superlative most rando)

  1. (colloquial) Random; arbitrary.

Noun edit

rando (plural randos)

  1. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) An arbitrary person with whom one has no shared social connection.
    I accidentally took some rando's luggage from the airport carousel.
    • 2018 August 7, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Wikipedia, the Last Bastion of Shared Reality”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      The very idea that a bunch of randos on the internet could create a better encyclopedia than a team of professionals was mildly ludicrous, and yet the project went on, […] .
  2. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) A person going to a party without being invited.
  3. (colloquial) Anything selected at random.
Quotations edit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rando.

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Etymology 2 edit

Clipping of randonnée, from French randonnée (“hiking”).

Adjective edit

rando

  1. Pertaining to randonnée or uphill skiing.

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Esperanto edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈrando]
  • Audio:
    (file)
  • Rhymes: -ando
  • Hyphenation: ran‧do

Etymology 1 edit

From German Rand.

Noun edit

rando (accusative singular randon, plural randoj, accusative plural randojn)

  1. edge

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Etymology 2 edit

From Afrikaans rand, ultimately from the same Germanic root as above.

Noun edit

rando (accusative singular randon, plural randoj, accusative plural randojn)

  1. rand (currency of South Africa)

French edit

Etymology edit

Clipping of randonnée.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

rando f (plural randos)

  1. (informal) walk, trek (for pleasure)

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Verb edit

rando

  1. first-person singular present indicative of randar
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