Definitions for rubies

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rubies ru·by

Spelling: [roo-bee]

IPA: /ˈru bi/

Rubies is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in rubies (beirsu).

Definitions for rubies

noun

1. a red variety of corundum, used as a gem.
2. something made of this stone or one of its imitations, as a bearing in a watch.
3. a deep-red port wine.
4. deep red; carmine.
5. (initial capital letter) Digital Technology. an open-source, high-level programming language that is purely object-oriented.
6. British Printing. a 5½-point type, nearly corresponding in size to American agate.
7. a female given name.

adjective

1. ruby-colored:
2. containing or set or adorned with a ruby or rubies:

Origin of rubies

1275-1325; Middle English rubi (noun) from Old French, from Old Provençal robi(n), from Medieval Latin rubīnus (lapis) “red (stone),” derivative of Latin ruber, rubeus red

Examples for rubies

There was a pen the nibs of which were of ruby, set in gold, made by Doughty.

After Spahn had obtained the movie ranch, ruby applied for a job there and was hired.

ruby also danced in a chorus of a Hollywood club for a while, as her marriage deteriorated and finally ended in divorce.

But ruby Pearl kept order, and the more responsibility she took the more Spahn relied upon her.

At one community fair, in Thousand Oaks, ruby met a man, a wrestler, who would become her next husband.

I cottoned to ye fust time I see ye, and so did ruby, and we still do.

I ain't hired him to loaf 'round all day with ruby and to sulk when she's gone.

In the last few years, however, Spahn gradually began to notice changes in ruby Pearl.

I ain't got nobody but you, ruby—don't go 'way from me, child—stay with me.'

I did all I could to make ruby's visit a happy one—don't you know I did?