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say it: rooth
ruth is a noun meaning "United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
“the blind are too often objects of pity”
a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
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 ruth 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.