raid

See also: RAID and ráid

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹeɪd/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Noun

raid (plural raids)

  1. (military) A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
    Synonyms: attack, foray, incursion
  2. (law enforcement) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
    Synonym: irruption
    a police raid of a narcotics factory
    a raid of contractors on the public treasury
    • 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman‎[1], archived from the original on 6 November 2018:
      For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year.
  3. (sports) An attacking movement.
    • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport‎[2], archived from the original on 27 September 2026:
      The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.
  4. (Internet slang) An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
    • 2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku‎[3], archived from the original on 9 November 2017:
      Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding.
    • 2017 October 20, Sarah Perez, “Twitch unveils a suite of new tools to help creators grow their channels and make money”, in TechCrunch‎[4], archived from the original on 4 November 2017:
      Now streamers can use a new feature that lets their viewers join a raid then drive traffic to another streamer with just a click.
  5. (online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
  6. (social media) An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
    • 2022 January 28, u/D4TBOl, “I need some help with preventing raids”, in r/discordapp‎[5] (Reddit post), archived from the original on 6 September 2024:
      I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour.
    • 2022 March 7, u/AcousticJamm, “Raid prevention tools”, in r/guilded‎[6] (Reddit post), archived from the original on 10 September 2024:
      Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

raid (third-person singular simple present raids, present participle raiding, simple past and past participle raided)

  1. (transitive) To engage in a raid against.
    The police raided the gambling den.
    The soldiers raided the village and burned it down.
    A group of mobsters raided an art museum and stole a bunch of paintings.
    Someone has been banned from Discord for raiding a server.
    The bank's funds have been raided by former execs.
  2. (transitive) To lure from another; to entice away from.
  3. (transitive) To indulge oneself by taking from.
    I raided the fridge for snacks.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Spanish: raid
  • → French: raid
  • → Italian: raid
  • → Polish: rajd
  • → Romanian: raid
  • → Russian: рейд (rejd)
  • → Swedish: räd

Translations

Anagrams

Basque

Etymology

Etymology tree
English raid
Spanish raidbor.
Basque raid

    Borrowed from Spanish raid, from English raid.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /rai̯d/ [rai̯ð̞]
    • Rhymes: -ai̯d
    • Hyphenation: raid

    Noun

    raid inan

    1. (military) raid
      Synonym: razzia
    2. long-distance race, rally

    Declension

    Declension of raid (inan C-stem)
    indefinite singular plural proximal plural
    absolutive raid raida raidak raidok
    ergative raidek raidak raidek raidok
    dative raidi raidari raidei raidoi
    genitive raiden raidaren raiden raidon
    comitative raidekin raidarekin raidekin raidokin
    causative raidengatik raidarengatik raidengatik raidongatik
    benefactive raidentzat raidarentzat raidentzat raidontzat
    instrumental raidez raidaz raidez raidotaz
    inessive raidetan raidean raidetan raidotan
    locative raidetako raideko raidetako raidotako
    allative raidetara raidera raidetara raidotara
    terminative raidetaraino raideraino raidetaraino raidotaraino
    directive raidetarantz raiderantz raidetarantz raidotarantz
    destinative raidetarako raiderako raidetarako raidotarako
    ablative raidetatik raidetik raidetatik raidotatik
    partitive raidik — — —
    prolative raidtzat — — —

    Further reading

    • “raid”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

    Emilian

    Etymology

    Cognate with Italian rete.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈrajd/

    Noun

    raid f (plural raid) (Bologna)

    1. net

    References

    Lepri, Luigi; Vitali, Daniele (2002), “raid”, in Dizionario Bolognese-Italiano, Italiano-Bolognese. Dizionèri Bulgnaiṡ-Itagliàn, Itagliàn-Bulgnaiṡ, 2nd edition, Bologna: Pendragon, →ISBN

    French

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    raid m (plural raids)

    1. (military) raid

    Derived terms

    Further reading

    Anagrams

    Italian

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈrajd/, /ˈrɛjd/, /ˈrejd/[1]
    • Rhymes: -ajd, -ɛjd, -ejd
    • Hyphenation: ràid

    Noun

    raid m (invariable)

    1. raid, incursion
    2. long-distance race or rally

    References

    1. ^ “raid” in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

    Anagrams

    North Frisian

    raid

    Etymology

    From Old Frisian hreid, hriād, from Proto-West Germanic *hreud (“reed”).

    Noun

    raid

    1. (Föhr-Amrum) reed

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Etymology tree
    Scots raid
    English raid
    French raidbor.
    Romanian raid

      Borrowed from French raid, from English raid, from Scots raid.

      Noun

      raid n (plural raiduri)

      1. raid

      Declension

      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative-accusative raid raidul raiduri raidurile
      genitive-dative raid raidului raiduri raidurilor
      vocative raidule raidurilor

      Scots

      Etymology

      From Middle English rade, northern variant of rode, from Old English rād.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /red/

      Noun

      raid (plural raids)

      1. raid

      Descendants

      Spanish

      Etymology

      Borrowed from English raid, from Scots raid. Doublet of rade from Middle English.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ˈraid/ [ˈrai̯ð̞]
      • Rhymes: -aid
      • Syllabification: raid

      Noun

      raid m (plural raides or raids)

      1. raid (military)
      2. attempt
      3. long-distance race

      Usage notes

      According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

      Further reading

      Veps

      Etymology

      From Proto-Finnic *raita, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *spraiþō.

      Noun

      raid

      1. willow

      Inflection

      Inflection of raid (inflection type 5/sana)
      nominative sing. raid
      genitive sing. raidan
      partitive sing. raidad
      partitive plur. raidoid
      singular plural
      nominative raid raidad
      accusative raidan raidad
      genitive raidan raidoiden
      partitive raidad raidoid
      essive-instructive raidan raidoin
      translative raidaks raidoikš
      inessive raidas raidoiš
      elative raidaspäi raidoišpäi
      illative raidaha raidoihe
      adessive raidal raidoil
      ablative raidalpäi raidoilpäi
      allative raidale raidoile
      abessive raidata raidoita
      comitative raidanke raidoidenke
      prolative raidadme raidoidme
      approximative I raidanno raidoidenno
      approximative II raidannoks raidoidennoks
      egressive raidannopäi raidoidennopäi
      terminative I raidahasai raidoihesai
      terminative II raidalesai raidoilesai
      terminative III raidassai —
      additive I raidahapäi raidoihepäi
      additive II raidalepäi raidoilepäi
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