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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Quick; swift; speedy.
  2. Early; coming before others, or before the usual time; youthful.
  3. Near; proximate.
  4. Quickly; swiftly; speedily.
  5. Early; soon.
  6. n. A fortified dwelling of an ancient Irish chief. The word occurs as the initial element in many Irish place-names, as Rathkeale. Rathlin, etc.
  7. n. A name given to certain rock-cut Buddhist temples in India.
  8. n. A Burmese state carriage.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a walled enclosure in Irish antiquity

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Ireland A hill or mound.
  2. n. A kind of ancient fortification found in Ireland.
  3. adj. Obs. or Poetic Coming before others, or before the usual time; early.
  4. adv. Obs. or Poetic Early; soon; betimes.

Etymologies

  1. From Old Irish ráth. (Wiktionary)

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