Ruby meaning: Precious red gemstone, highly valued

We found 51 dictionaries that define the word Ruby:

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General (33 matching dictionaries)

ruby: Merriam-Webster.com
ruby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
ruby: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
ruby: Collins English Dictionary
ruby: Vocabulary.com
Ruby, ruby: Wordnik
ruby: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Ruby, ruby: Wiktionary
ruby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
ruby: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
ruby: Infoplease Dictionary
ruby: Dictionary.com
ruby: Online Etymology Dictionary
ruby: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Ruby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ruby: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
ruby: Rhymezone
ruby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
ruby: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ruby: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
Ruby, Ruby: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
ruby: Mnemonic Dictionary
Ruby, ruby: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
ruby: Dictionary/thesaurus
ruby: Free Dictionary
Ruby: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)

Ruby: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Ruby: Game Dictionary
Ruby, Ruby: Dictionary of Programming Languages
Ruby: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
Webopedia (No longer online)
Technopedia (No longer online)
Ruby (gemstone), ruby: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

baby names list (No longer online)
Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
ruby: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Ruby: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)

RUBY: The Mineral Gallery

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

ruby, ruby, Ruby: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Ruby (Murray): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

GLOSSARY OF JEWELRY-RELATED TERMS (No longer online)
IndyGem Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See rubies as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Ruby)

▸ noun:  A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A red spinel.
▸ noun:  A deep red colour.
▸ noun:  (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
▸ noun:  A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
▸ noun:  A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
▸ adjective:  Of a deep red colour.
▸ verb:  (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.
▸ noun:  (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
▸ noun:  A female given name from English.
▸ noun:  (rare) A surname.
▸ noun:  (rare) A male given name.
▸ noun:  (computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
▸ noun:  A city in Alaska.
▸ noun:  A ghost town in Arizona
▸ noun:  A town in South Carolina.
▸ noun:  A town in Wisconsin.
▸ noun:  A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
▸ noun:  (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry; Short for Ruby Murray.

Similar:

crimson, carmine, ruby-red, blood-red, cherry-red, scarlet, cerise, reddish, ruddy, red, more...

Opposite:

sapphire

Types:

Burmruby, Thai ruby, Cambodiruby, Tanzaniruby, Nigeriruby, Pakistruby, more...

Phrases:

Ruby laser, Jack Ruby, ruby red, Ruby Dee, ruby glass, more...

Adjectives:

large, red, great, synthetic, oriental, single, little, fine, deep, natural, small

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