rum
Meanings
noun
- A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- A serving of rum.
- A kind or brand of rum.
- A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
- A strange person or thing.
- A country parson.
adj
- Fine, excellent, valuable.
- Strange, peculiar.
noun
- Any odd person or thing.
noun
- The card game rummy.
name
- Alternative form of Rome: Rome (a major city in Italy).
name
- An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
- A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate.
- Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts.
name
- Alternative form of Rùm, an island of the Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.
noun
- Initialism of real user monitoring.
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Etymology
In common use since at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include: * that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, names for rum also attested in the Caribbean during the mid-17th century, * that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer, * that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (however, these drinks were not originally made with rum), * that it derives from rum ("fine, good") or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, this origin is now considered unlikely)
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