English Explanatory Dictionary

rumney

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
name
  1. A suburban area and community in eastern Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST2179).
  2. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
  3. A surname.

Word forms

rumney rumneys romney

Etymology

Derived from Romania, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Derived words

Mount Rumney
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