Meaning

4 senses
  1. (dialectal)A watercourse.

  2. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.

    Ader

    жи́лаžíla

    a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks

  3. (broadly)A rich source of supply.

    Goldgrube

  4. (obsolete)A way or path; a road.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. These lodes may prove rich enough to be profitably mined.

    ruЭти залежи могут оказаться достаточно прибыльными для разработки.

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  2. This is the richest uranium lode I've seen.

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  3. The Colorado silver lodes are porous at the surface and colored more or less red or green.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
vein of metallic ore:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
vein of metallic ore:
rich source of supply:

Origin

Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode co

Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.

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Forms

plural: lodes
Singularlode
Plurallodes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks:load

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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