Definitions for Ruby

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Ruby ru·by

Spelling: [roo-bee]

IPA: /ˈru bi/

Ruby is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in Ruby (bruy).

Definitions for Ruby

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 Ruby

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 Ruby

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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