orderly
Other forms: orderlies
Orderly means neat, tidy, and well-organized. An orderly library makes it easy to find the books you want.
A thing or place can be orderly, like a desk, refrigerator, or a hospital, and so can a person, particularly if they are very calm and well-behaved. And when it's a noun, orderly means a hospital worker who does many non-medical jobs and generally keeps things neat and tidy — orderly, in other words. The Latin root is ordinem, "arrangement or row," which originally meant "a row of threads in a loom."
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clean or organized
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devoid of violence or disruption“an orderly crowd confronted the president”antonyms:disorderlyundisciplined and unrulyboisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unrulynoisy and lacking in restraint or disciplinebare-knuckle, bare-knuckled, rough-and-tumblecharacterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules
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a hospital attendant who has general duties that do not involve the medical treatment of patientssynonyms: hospital attendant
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a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer
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Rafe Khatchadorian and his friend Leonardo come up with a game in which they earn points for breaking middle school rules. But a school bully discovers their journal full of the game's details and threatens to turn them in.
As you read Charles Johnson's "A Soldier for the Crown," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 11's Collection 2: The Declaration of Independence, Preamble and Bill of Rights, The Federalist No. 10, Thomas Jefferson: The Best of Enemies, Colonial American poems, A Soldier for the Crown