RUNG meaning: Step or bar in ladder

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word rung:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

rung: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rung: Merriam-Webster
rung, rung, rung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
rung, rung: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
rung: Collins English Dictionary
rung: Vocabulary.com
Rung, rung: Wordnik
rung: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Rung, rung: Wiktionary
rung: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
rung: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
rung: Infoplease Dictionary
rung: Dictionary.com
rung: Online Etymology Dictionary
rung: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Rung: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Rung: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
rung: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
rung: Rhymezone
rung: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
rung: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
rung: FreeDictionary.org
rung: Mnemonic Dictionary
rung: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
rung: Legal dictionary
rung: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

rung: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

rung: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
rung: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

rung: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

rung, rung: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
rung: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ring as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
▸ noun:  A crosspiece between legs of a chair.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A position in a hierarchy.
▸ noun:  (nautical, dated) A floor timber in a ship.
▸ noun:  (dated) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.
▸ noun:  (engineering, dated) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel.
▸ noun:  (engineering, dated) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.
▸ adjective:  Of a pig: having a ring through the nose.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

spoke, stave, rundle, round, rondle, range, rimer, rynge, rundel, rack, more...

Opposite:

rungless, step, level, flat, ground

Types:

step, spoke, strut, stave, slat, more...

Phrases:

rung up, rung out, rung off, The Last Rung on the Ladder, Phanom Rung Historical Park, more...

Adjectives:

lowest, bottom, first, top, next, highest, last, second, topmost, third, middle