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Etymology

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  • From earlierrandon, fromMiddle Englishrandoun,raundon, fromOld Frenchrandon, fromrandir(“to run, gallop”) (whence Frenchrandonnée(“long walk, hike”)), fromFrankish*randiju(“a run, race”) orOld Norserend(“a run, race”), both fromProto-Germanic*randijō, from*rinnaną(“run”,verb), fromProto-Indo-European*(H)r̥-nw-(“to flow, move, run”). Cognate withMiddle Low Germanuprinden(“to jump up”),Danishrende(“to run”). Seerun.

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    random (countable anduncountable,pluralrandoms)

    1. A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
    2. (obsolete)Speed, full speed;impetuosity,force.[14th–17th c.]
      Synonyms:force,momentum,speed,velocity
      • 1485,Sir Thomas Malory, chapterX, inLe Morte Darthur, book I:
        they were messagers vnto kyng Ban & Bors sent from kynge Arthur / therfor said the viij knyghtes ye shalle dye or be prysoners / for we ben knyghtes of kyng Claudas And therwith two of them dressid theire sperys / and Vlfyus and Brastias dressid theire speres and ranne to gyder with greteraundon
        they were messengers unto King Ban and Bors sent from King Arthur. Therefore, said the eight knights, ye shall die or be prisoners, for we be knights of King Claudas. And therewith two of them dressed their spears, and Ulfius and Brastias dressed their spears, and ran together with greatrandom.
      • 1548,Edward Hall, “The triumphant reigne of Kyng Henry the VIII”, inThe Union of the two noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke (Hall’s Chronicle),page82v:
        […] for coragiouſly the two kynges newely foughte with greatrandon and force, they ſhewed their vigors and ſtrengthes and did ſo nobly that their coũter parties had none aduaũtage.
    3. (obsolete) The full range of abullet or otherprojectile; hence, the angle at which a weapon is tilted to allow the greatest range.[16th–19th c.]
      • 1624, John Smith,Generall Historie, Kupperman, published1988, page144:
        Fortie yards will they shoot levell, or very neare the marke, and 120 is their best atRandom.
      • 1644,Sir Kenelm Digby,Two Treatises,page125:
        […] the angle at which themiſſive is to mount by ( if we will have it go to its furtheſtrandome ) muſt be the half of a right one[…]
    4. (figuratively, colloquial) An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.[from 20th c.]
      Synonyms:rando,nobody,nonentity
      The party was boring. It was full ofrandoms.
    5. (mining) The direction of a rake-vein.
    6. (printing, historical) Aframe forcomposingtype.
      • 1935,Newspaper World, numbers1930-1955, page41:
        Utilization of all floor spaceunderneath case racks andrandoms is another feature of the modern composing room;[…]
      • 2002,Republic of Korea, number 2, page502:
        Printers' frames andrandoms

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    Translations

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    obsolete: speed, full speed; impetuosity, force
    unimportant person

    Adjective

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    random (comparativemorerandom,superlativemostrandom)

    1. Occurring for no particular reason;haphazard,unpredictable.
      Synonym:desultory
      Our city is plagued byrandom acts of violence.
      random acts of kindness
    2. (statistics) Involving anoutcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by aprobability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equallylikely.
      Near-synonyms:aleatory,stochastic
      The flip of a fair coin is purelyrandom.
      The newspaper conducted arandom sample of five hundred American teenagers.
      The results of the field survey lookrandom by several different measures.
      A toss of a loaded die is stillrandom, though biased.
      • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV ClubThe Dark Knight Rises[1]
        Where the Joker preys on our fears ofrandom, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
    3. (computing)Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
      Therand function generates arandom number from a seed.
    5. (informal) Selected for no particular reason;arbitrary;unspecified.
      Arandom American off the street couldn't tell the difference.
      You're just going to trust the word ofrandom people on the Internet?
      I didn't have time to peruse the resturant's menu, so I just ordered somerandom dish.
      Whateverrandom hobby you're into, there's an Internet community for it.
    6. (informal) Being (part of) avaried,unrelated, and apparentlyarbitrary collection of things;diverse,heterogeneous.
      My notebook has turned into arandom collection of thoughts.
      I brought a bunch ofrandom snacks, but nothing nutritious.
      I mixed a bunch ofrandom vegetables into a salad, and it actually turned out pretty good.
    8. (informal)Apropos of nothing; lackingcontext,relevance, or anyconnection to the previous situation;unexpected.
      Thisrandom guy just came up to me to say that he was a fan of my work.
      Thank you for that completelyrandom comment... now, let's get back to our actual topic of discussion.
      The teacher's bartending story was interesting, but veryrandom.
      I feel like pineapple is a veryrandom thing to put on a pizza.
    10. (informal) Of a person: characterized by or often sayingrandom things; habitually usingnon sequiturs.
      You're sorandom! I never know what you're going to do next.
    11. (UK, slang) Beingout of the ordinary;unusual orunexpected;odd,strange,bizarre.
      That's a ratherrandom fact!
      I can't believe he would say that. That's sorandom!

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    terms derived fromrandom (adjective)

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    Translations

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    all outcomes being unpredictable
    mathematics: of or relating to probability distribution
    computing: pseudorandom
    undistinguished, average
    apropos of nothing
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    Verb

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    random (third-person singular simple presentrandoms,present participlerandoming,simple past and past participlerandomed)

    1. (intransitive, now uncommon) Towander; tostray; tomeander.

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    French

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishrandom.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ʁɑ̃.dɔm/,/ʁan.dɔm/

    Adjective

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    random (pluralrandoms)

    1. (colloquial, chiefly youthslang)random(apropos of nothing, lacking context)
      Synonym:lambda

    Noun

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    random m orf (pluralrandoms)

    1. (colloquial, chiefly youthslang)randomperson;randomguy,rando
      Synonym:lambda
      unrandom sur internet ―arando on the Internet

    German

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishrandom.

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    random (indeclinable)(colloquial, chiefly youthslang)

    1. random(selected for no particular reason)
      Synonym:beliebig
      • 2022 November 28, Carolina Schwarz, “Social-Media-App BeReal: Solange es noch schön ist”, inDie Tageszeitung: taz‎[2],→ISSN:
        Das Prinzip ist simpel: Einmal am Tag zu einerrandom Uhrzeit erscheint bei allen Nutzer*innen eine Pushnachricht, dazu startet ein Zweiminutencountdown.
        (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
      • 2023 January 29, Michael Brake, “Auf der Grünen Woche in Berlin: Im Sog der Häppchen”, inDie Tageszeitung: taz‎[3],→ISSN:
        Manche Länder haben dabei einen zentralen Auftritt, andere ein Sammelsurium aus vielen Einzelanbietern; es sind aber ohnehin nicht alle Länder da, nicht einmal alle Bundesländer. Es ist letztlich ziemlichrandom, beliebig, was hier geboten wird.
        (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
    2. random(apropos of nothing, lacking context)
    3. random(often saying random things)

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    Hungarian

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    Etymology

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    FromEnglishrandom.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): [ˈrɒndom]
    • Hyphenation:ran‧dom
    • Rhymes:-om

    Adjective

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    random (comparativerandomabb,superlativelegrandomabb)

    1. random
      Synonyms:véletlen,véletlenszerű
    2. (informal)undistinguished,average,arbitrary,whichever,any
      Synonyms:tetszőleges,akármelyik,akármilyen,bármelyik,bármilyen

    Declension

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    Inflection (stem in-o-, back harmony)
    singularplural
    nominativerandomrandomok
    accusativerandomotrandomokat
    dativerandomnakrandomoknak
    instrumentalrandommalrandomokkal
    causal-finalrandomértrandomokért
    translativerandommárandomokká
    terminativerandomigrandomokig
    essive-formalrandomkéntrandomokként
    essive-modal——
    inessiverandombanrandomokban
    superessiverandomonrandomokon
    adessiverandomnálrandomoknál
    illativerandombarandomokba
    sublativerandomrarandomokra
    allativerandomhozrandomokhoz
    elativerandombólrandomokból
    delativerandomrólrandomokról
    ablativerandomtólrandomoktól
    non-attributive
    possessive – singular    		randomérandomoké
    non-attributive
    possessive – plural    		randoméirandomokéi

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    1. ^Tótfalusi, István.Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005.→ISBN

    Polish

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    Pronunciation

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    Borrowed fromEnglishrandom.

    Noun

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    random m pers

    1. (colloquial, slang)random,rando(undefined, unknown, or unimportant person; a person of no consequence)
      Zrandomami z neta nie gadam. ―I don't talk torandos on the Internet.
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    Declension ofrandom
    singularplural
    nominativerandomrandomi/randomy (deprecative)
    genitiverandomarandomów
    dativerandomowirandomom
    accusativerandomarandomów
    instrumentalrandomemrandomami
    locativerandomierandomach
    vocativerandomierandomi
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    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

    Noun

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    random m animal

    1. dativeplural ofrand

    Further reading

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    • random in Polish dictionaries at PWN
    • random at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

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    Etymology

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  • Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European*h₃er-
    Proto-Indo-European*h₃reyH-der.
    Proto-Germanic*rinnaną
    Proto-West Germanic*rinnan
    Frankish*randijubor.
    Old Frenchrandirder.
    Old Frenchrandonbor.
    Middle Englishrandoun
    Englishrandon
    Portugueserandom

    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishrandom.

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    random m orf (pluralrandons)

    1. (Internetslang)random;aleatory
      Synonym:aleatório

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    Noun

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    random m orfby sense (pluralrandons)

    1. (Internetslang, usually derogatory)rando(random person)

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    Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishrandom.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈrandom/[ˈrãn̪.d̪õm]
    • Rhymes:-andom
    • Syllabification:ran‧dom

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    random m orf (masculine and feminine pluralrandoms)

    1. (Internetslang, youthslang, colloquial)random
      Synonyms:aleatorio,al azar,estocástico

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    random m orf (pluralrandoms)

    1. (Internetslang, youthslang, colloquial) random person; random guy,rando

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    According toRoyal 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.

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    • “random”, inFundéu (in Spanish), 18 June 2019
    • Manuel Seco; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “random”, inDiccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]

    Turkish

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishrandom.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈɾan.dom/
    • (imitating English)IPA(key): /ˈɾendɯm/,[ˈɾæn-]
    • Hyphenation:ran‧dom

    Adverb

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    random

    1. (Internetslang, youthslang, colloquial)randomly
      Synonym:rastgele

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    random

    1. (Internetslang, youthslang, colloquial)random
      Synonym:rastgele
      random bir adam ―a random person

    Noun

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    random (definite accusativerandomu,pluralrandomlar)

    1. (Internetslang, youthslang, colloquial) any word made by randomly pressing keys on a keyboard, usually used to show a person laughing
    2. (by extension)gibberish

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    Vietnamese

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed fromEnglishrandom.

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    random

    1. randomly
      Synonym:ngẫu nhiên
      Chọnrandom ba món quà.
      To choose three giftsrandomly.

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    random

    1. random (unpredictable outcome)
      Synonym:ngẫu nhiên
      quàrandom ―random gifts

    Verb

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    random

    1. to do somethingrandomly
      Nếu chưa biết ăn món gì thì cứrandom thôi.
      If you haven't known what to eat, justchoose randomly.
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