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Rod

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

A nickname for the male given names Rodney and Roderick.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A nickname for the male given names Rodney and Roderick.

    President Donald Trump on Monday pardoned former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was sent to prison on corruption charges surrounding his time in office.

Etymology

Abbreviated form of Rodney and of Roderick, both with roots originating from Germanic *hrōþiz (“fame”).

proper noun

  1. 1

    The god of the family, ancestors and fate in Slavic mythology.

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *rȍdъ.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).