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say it: roh
row is a noun and verb meaning "an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line". It is pronounced /ˈɹoʊ/ — roh. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a long continuous strip (usually running horizontally)
“a mackerel sky filled with rows of clouds”
“rows of barbed wire protected the trenches”
(construction) a layer of masonry
“a course of bricks”
a continuous chronological succession without an interruption
“they won the championship three years in a row”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for row come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.