English Explanatory Dictionary

ruby

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
  2. A deep red colour.
  3. The tincture red or gules.
  4. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
  5. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
  6. The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
  7. A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
  8. A red spinel.
adj
  1. Of a deep, red color; ruby-red.
verb
  1. To make red; to redden.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Ruby (“curry”).
name
  1. A female given name.
  2. A surname.
  3. A male given name.
  4. A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
  5. A city in Alaska.
  6. A ghost town in Arizona.
  7. A town in South Carolina.
  8. A town in Wisconsin.
  9. A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
  10. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
noun
  1. A curry; ellipsis of Ruby Murray.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹuː.bi/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-ruby.wav

Word forms

ruby rubies more ruby most ruby rubying rubied

Etymology

From Middle English ruby, rube, from Old French rubi, from Medieval Latin rubīnus. Doublet of rubi and rubine. Sense 7 (“pronunciation guide”) is from the British 5½-point type size (sense 6), used for annotations in printed documents.

Synonyms

agate

Related words

corundum rouge rubicund rubric rufous russet rubi carbuncle spinel furigana pinyin yomigana Zhuyin

Derived words

antique ruby balas-ruby Colorado ruby Mont Blanc ruby nonruby ovorubin rock ruby rose-a-ruby rubasse rubelet rubious ruby anniversary ruby blende ruby chocolate Ruby Creek ruby jubilee rubylike ruby port ruby red ruby-red ruby shark ruby silver ruby slippers ruby spinel rubytail rubythroat ruby-throated hummingbird ruby tiger rubyware ruby wedding rubywood star ruby Rubygate Rubyist

Translations

Afrikaans: robyn Albanian: rubin Arabic: يَاقُوت Arabic: ياقوت Armenian: սուտակ Assamese: মাণিক Assamese: ডালিমা Assamese: চুনী Asturian: rubín Azerbaijani: yaqut Azerbaijani: rubin Belarusian: рубі́н Bengali: মাণিক্য ইয়াকুত Bengali: এয়াকুত Bulgarian: руби́н Bulgarian: рубинено червено Burmese: ကျောက်နီ Catalan: robí Chinese Mandarin: 紅寶石 /红宝石 Crimean Tatar: yahut Crimean Tatar: qan taş Czech: rubín Danish: rubin Dutch: robijn Esperanto: rubeno Estonian: rubiin Faroese: rubinur Finnish: rubiini French: rubis Friulian: rubin Galician: rubí Georgian: ლალი Georgian: ბადახში German: Rubin Greek: ρουμπίνι Ancient Greek: καρχηδόνιος Gujarati: માણેક Hebrew: אֹדֶם Hindi: मानिक Hindi: माणिक्य Hindi: याक़ूत Hindi: याकूत Hindi: लाल Hindi: चूनी Hindi: चुन्नी Hungarian: rubin Icelandic: rúbín Indonesian: bakam Indonesian: batu delima Indonesian: mirah Irish: rúibín Italian: rubino Japanese: ルビー Japanese: 紅玉 Kazakh: лағыл Khmer: ត្បូងទទឹម Khmer: ទទឹម Korean: 루비 Esperanto: Rubi Hindi: रूबी Japanese: ルビー Māori: Rupi Marathi: रूबी Persian: روبی Russian: Руби Urdu: روبی
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