Usually means: Remnants of old, destroyed structures.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruins: Merriam-Webster
  2. ruins: Collins English Dictionary
  3. ruins: Vocabulary.com
  4. Ruin's, Ruins, ruin's, ruins: Wordnik
  5. ruins: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. ruins: Wiktionary
  7. ruins: Dictionary.com
  8. ruins: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Ruins (Australian band), Ruins (First Aid Kit album), Ruins (Grouper album), Ruins (Japanese band), Ruins (black metal band), Ruins (comics), Ruins (disambiguation), Ruins (instrumental), Ruins (metal band), Ruins (novel), Ruins, The Ruins (film), The Ruins (mansion), The Ruins (novel), The Ruins, The ruins: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. ruins: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  11. ruins: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ruins: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ruins: Idioms

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Ruins)

noun:  the remains of a civilization's architecture.
noun:  a Japanese music duo composed only of drummer/vocalist Tatsuya Yoshida and a bass guitarist (there have been four such bassists in the band's history).
noun:  a two-issue comic book miniseries, written by Warren Ellis with painted artwork by Terese Nielsen, her husband Cliff Nielsen, and Chris Moeller, who took over for the last 17 pages of the second issue.
noun:  an Australian black metal band, based in Hobart, Tasmania.
noun:  a Dread Zeppelin album featuring B-sides, alternate mixes and previously unreleased tracks.
noun:  a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, who is best known for his novel Ender's Game.
noun:  the tenth studio album by American musician Liz Harris under the stage name Grouper.
noun:  the fourth studio album by Swedish folk duo
noun:  "Ruins" is a 1974 instrumental composed by Fred Frith for the English avant-rock group Henry Cow.
noun:  a 2004 Slovenian drama film directed by Janez Burger.


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