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Arzamas18 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

What does "arid" mean?

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00Could you tell me what the meaning of the word "arid" in this sentence is:02br
00There was a great fight with Sir Damas, arid King Arthur won with Excalibur.02br
00I looked up this word in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary:02br
00arid010200 /00/ adjective02br
0100100 (00of land or a climate00) 00having little or no rain; very dry00:02br
00arid and semi-arid deserts020102br
002 00(00formal00)00 00with nothing new or interesting in it00:02br
00an arid discussion0202br
00I have little difficulties in applying these meanings to the sentence mentioned earlier. Can it be just a misprint? Or is it so that my dictionary doesn't have all possible entries for this word?02br
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00Thanks0-
  

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0Hello Arzamas,02br
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00I think it must have been the word "and." Was it hand written? If someone was writing "and" and the pen skipped a little during the n, it could look like an r followed by an i.0-
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0 Hi,02br
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00Thanks for the reply.02br
00It wasn't hand written. It is actually a "well" printed book.0-
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0 Even the best-proofed books can have mistakes in them. I agree it looks like a typo for "and"0-
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