English Explanatory Dictionary

ren

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kidney.
noun
  1. One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
name
  1. Clipping of Renaissance.
noun
  1. Initialism of ringer equivalence number.

Pronunciation

/ɹɛn/ /ɹiːn/

Word forms

ren renes rens

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rēn. Doublet of rein (“kidney”).

Related words

renal

Derived words

Ren fair Ren faire Ren fest
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on R Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary