RI

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Initialism of Rhode Island: a state of the United States.
  2. Abbreviation of Riau: a province of Indonesia.
  3. Initialism of Raffles Institution.
noun
  1. Initialism of radioisotope.
  2. Initialism of radio interference.
noun
  1. rex imperator (“king-emperor”) or regina imperatrix (“queen-empress”); the initials by which a British monarch signed documents after his or her name from 1877 until 1947.
noun
  1. A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
noun
  1. The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.
name
  1. Alternative form of Yi.

Pronunciation

/ɹiː/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ri.wav

Word forms

RI RIs

Etymology

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Chinese 里 (lǐ). Doublet of li.

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