Meaning
To ask for food or drink, or for things to be sent to you; to tell someone to do something.
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Word origin
From Old French ordre, from Latin ordo, meaning a row or an arrangement.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- ordo
- English cognates
- ordinary, orderly
Grammar
Examples
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