red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
(adjective) of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
crimson, ruby, deep red
(noun) a deep and vivid red color
ruby
(noun) a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
ruby
(noun) a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ruby (countable and uncountable, plural rubies)
A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.
(obsolete) A red spinel.
A deep red colour.
(heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
(uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
Synonym: agate (US)
A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
ruby (comparative more ruby, superlative most ruby)
Of a deep red colour.
ruby (third-person singular simple present rubies, present participle rubying, simple past and past participle rubied)
(transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden.
From the British 5.5-point font Ruby, used for annotations in printed documents.
ruby (plural rubies)
A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese or Japanese characters.
Synonym: rubi
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Ruby
A female given name from English.
(rare) A surname.
(rare) A male given name.
(computer language) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s.
A city in Alaska.
A ghost town in Arizona
A town in South Carolina.
A town in Wisconsin.
A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands.
Ruby
(Cockney rhyming slang) A curry, short for Ruby Murray.
• -bury, Bury, bury
Source: Wiktionary
Ru"by, n.; pl. Rubies. Etym: [F. rubis (cf. Pr. robi), LL. rubinus, robinus, fr. L. rubeus red, reddish, akin to ruber. See Rouge, red.]
1. (Min.)
Definition: A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
Note: Besides the true or Oriental ruby above defined, there are the balas ruby, or ruby spinel, a red variety of spinel, and the rock ruby, a red variety of garnet. Of rubies, sapphires, and pearles white. Chaucer.
2. The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint. The natural ruby of your cheeks. Shak.
3. That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
4. (Print.)
Definition: See Agate, n., 2. [Eng.]
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolæma. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast. Ruby of arsenic, Ruby of sulphur (Chem.), a glassy substance of a red color and a variable composition, but always consisting chiefly of the disulphide of arsenic; -- called also ruby sulphur.
– Ruby of zinc (Min.), zinc sulphide; the mineral zinc blende or sphalerite.
– Ruby silver (Min.), red silver. See under Red.
Ru"by, a.
Definition: Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
Ru"by, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rubied; p. pr. & vb. n. Rubying.]
Definition: To make red; to redden. [R.] Pope.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
