Ruby

Quick meaning: Ruby is a noun meaning A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.

Meaning

A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone.

More Meanings

1. A deep red colour.
2. (heraldry) The tincture red or gules.
3. A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda.
4. A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra.
5. (uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point.
6. (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters.
7. (obsolete) A red spinel.

Example Sentences

With sanguine drops the walls are rubied

When now I thinke you can behold such sights, / And keepe the naturall Rubie of your Cheekes, / When mine is blanch'd with feare.

The Field is Ruby, on a Bend Topaz, three Martlets Diamond. [...] Checkie Topaz and Saphire, a Fesse within a Bordure Ruby, by the Name of Clifford.

They respond instantly to the faintest rustling in the covert of a sheaf of Ulysses S. Grants, or the homely, rustic tinkle of a wheelbarrow full of rubies being jounced along over a nightclub floor.

Word Forms

• rubies
• rubying
• rubied

Synonyms for ruby

Depending on context, synonyms include agate, chromatic, carmine, ruddy, crimson, cherry.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include carmine, crimson, scarlet, red, ruddy, cerise.

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