▸ noun: A clear, deep, red variety of corundum, valued as a precious stone. ▸ noun: (obsolete) A red spinel. ▸ noun: A deep red colour. ▸ noun: (heraldry) The tincture red or gules. ▸ noun: (uncountable, printing, UK, dated) The size of type between pearl and nonpareil, standardized as 5½-point. ▸ noun: A ruby hummer, a South American hummingbird, Clytolaema rubricauda. ▸ noun: A red bird-of-paradise, Paradisaea rubra. ▸ adjective: Of a deep red colour. ▸ verb: (transitive, poetic) To make red; to redden. ▸ noun: (typography) A pronunciation guide written above or beside Chinese characters. ▸ noun: A female given name from English. ▸ noun: (rare) A surname. ▸ noun: (rare) A male given name. ▸ noun: (computer languages) A dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language developed in the 1990s. ▸ noun: A city in Alaska. ▸ noun: A ghost town in Arizona ▸ noun: A town in South Carolina. ▸ noun: A town in Wisconsin. ▸ noun: A settlement on the island of Saint Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. ▸ noun: (Cockney rhyming slang) A curry; Short for Ruby Murray.
Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter. This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.
(Click a button above to see words related to "ruby" that fit the given meter.)