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rando

See also: Rando

English

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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rando (comparative more rando, superlative most rando)

  1. (colloquial) Random; arbitrary.

Noun

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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, […] .
    • 2022, Game Freak, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, spoken by Nemona:
      You don't have to go finding randos to battle!
  2. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) A person going to a party without being invited.
  3. (colloquial) Anything selected at random.
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For quotations using this term, see Citations:rando.

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Etymology 2

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

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rando

  1. Pertaining to randonnée or uphill skiing.

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Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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From German Rand.

Noun

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

  1. edge

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Etymology 2

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

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

  1. rand (currency of South Africa)

French

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Etymology

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Clipping of randonnée.

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rando f (plural randos)

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

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Galician

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Verb

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rando

  1. first-person singular present indicative of randar
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