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Rachel
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proper noun
  1. (biblical) Younger daughter of Laban, sister to Leah, and second wife of Jacob.
  2. (given name, female, from Hebrew, ) .
Raleigh
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proper noun
  1. the county seat of Wake County and the capital of North Carolina
  2. an English place name, surname and given name
  3. w:Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh English explorer and soldier
  4. an English bicycle manufacturer
(wikipedia, Raleigh (bicycle))
Ralph
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
Randolph
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
Randy
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), diminutive of Randall and Randolph.
  2. (given name, female), diminutive of Miranda.
Raphael
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proper noun
  1. An archangel in Christianity (from the Apocryphal tale of Tobias ), Judaism, and Islam.
  2. (given name, male).
  3. A surname derived from the given name.
  4. An Italian Renaissance painter.
Ray
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), a diminutive of Raymond.
Raymond
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
read
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noun
  1. A reading or an act of reading, especially an actor's part of a play.
verb (reads, reading, read)
  1. (context, transitive, intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written.
Have you this book?
He doesn't like to .
  1. (context, transitive, intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object.
He us a passage from his new book.
All right, class, who wants to next?
  1. (transitive) In telecommunications, to be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
Do you me?
  1. (context, transitive, UK) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks.
I am reading theology at university.
  1. (transitive) To interpret or infer a meaning, significance, etc.
I can his feelings in his face.
  1. To consist of certain text.
On the door hung a sign that , "Proper Safety Equipment Required Beyond This Point."
  1. (intransitive) Of text, etc., to be interpreted or read in a particular way.
Arabic reads backwards.
  1. (past of, read)
Rebecca
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female, from Hebrew, )
Red
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noun
  1. A Communist
adjective
  1. Communist
the Army
reed
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noun (countable and uncountable; plural: reeds)
  1. (countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.
  2. (countable) The hollow stem of these plants.
  3. (countable) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising of a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
  4. (countable) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.
  5. (uncountable) (as a material)
Reg
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proper noun
  1. diminutive of Reginald
Reginald
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male) derived from a Latinized form of Reynold, popular in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century.
Reid
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male)
Renata
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female, from Latin, ).
Renee
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female, from Latin, ) (alternative spelling of, Renée)
resin
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noun
  1. Any of various yellowish viscous liquids or soft solids of plant origin; used in lacquers, varnishes and many other applications; chemically they are mostly hydrocarbons, often polycyclic
  2. Any synthetic compound of similar properties
Reuben
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noun
  1. A grilled or toasted sandwich made with corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and either Russian dressing or Thousand Island dressing.
proper noun
  1. (biblical) First son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
  2. (biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Reuben.
  3. A male given name.
Reynold
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proper noun (wikipedia, Reynold)
  1. (given name, male), today more popular in the forms Reginald and Ronald. Modern use is partly transferred from the surname.
  2. A surname derived from the given name.
Rich
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male); diminutive of Richard.
Richie
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), diminutive of Richard.
Richmond
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proper noun
  1. Richmond upon Thames, a suburb of London in the United Kingdom.
  2. The capital of Virginia in United States of America.
  3. One of the five boroughs of New York City, comprising Staten Island.
  4. Also the names of many other places in the world — see w:Richmond, the Wikipedia article.
Rick
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), a diminutive of Richard.
Ricky
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), diminutive of Richard
rima
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noun (rimae)
  1. (anatomy) A cleft or gap between two symmetrical parts, particularly between the vocal folds.
  2. (astronomy) A crack or fissure on a lunar or planetary surface; a rille.
Ring
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proper noun (infl, en, proper noun)
  1. An Irish family name.
RIP
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initialism or R.I.P.
  1. rest in peace, Rest in peace. Typically found on tombstones.
Rita
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female) taken into regular use in early twentieth century; diminutive of Latin and Spanish Margarita and Italian Margherita, all cognates of Margaret. An Italian Saint Rita was canonized in 1900.
Rob
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), diminutive of the male given name Robert.
Robert
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), one of the most common English names since the Norman Conquest.
Robin
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
  2. (given name, female), also associated with the bird robin.
  3. A fictional comic book superhero, the sidekick of Batman.
Robinson
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proper noun
  1. an English surname derived from the given name Robin
  2. A male given name derived from the surname.
Rock
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proper noun
  1. A male given name.
Rod
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male)
Roderick
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male), diminutive: Rod.
Rodger
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proper noun
  1. Variant spelling of the male given name Roger.
Rodney
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proper noun
  1. a male given name
Roger
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
Roland
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proper noun
  1. A paladin of Charlemagne in medieval French romance.
  2. (given name, male)
Romeo
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proper noun
  1. One of the main characters of w:William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare's play w:Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet.
  2. A boyfriend.
  3. A man who is a great lover.
  4. By analogy with the Shakesperean character, a man who is in love with a woman from a family, party or country opposing his own.
  5. A man who has married without the consent of his parent-in-law, parents-in-law.
  6. The letter R in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
Ronald
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male)
Rosa
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female, from Latin, ) (also popular in Italy, Spain and Portugal)
Rose
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female), vernacular form of the medieval Rosa, reinforced by the English noun rose
  2. A diminutive of the given name Rosemary
Rosemarie
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proper noun
  1. (alternative spelling of, Rosemary)
Rosemary
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female)
rosette
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noun
  1. An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
  2. An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used in decoration.
  3. A red color. See roset.
  4. A rose burner. See under rose.
  5. Any structure having a flowerlike form; especially, the group of five broad ambulacra on the upper side of the spatangoid and clypeastroid sea urchins.
  6. A flowerlike color marking; as, the rosettes on the leopard.
(webster)
Ross
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proper noun
  1. An English and Scottish habitational surname derived from any of several places of that name, from Gaelic ros "headland".
  2. (given name, male), transferred use of the surname since early nineteenth century.
rosy
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noun
  1. (British English, slang) tea
I wish a cup of Rosy.
adjective (rosier, rosiest)
  1. rose-coloured
  2. optimistic
Roxanne
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female, from Persian, ) from Persian.
Roy
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
rube
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noun
  1. A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
  2. (pejorative) An unsophisticated or unintelligent person.
Ruby
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proper noun
  1. (given name, female)
  2. (computing) A programming language.
  3. (CockneyRS?) A curry, short for Ruby Murray.
Rudolph
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proper noun
  1. (given name, male).
  2. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rufus
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proper noun
  1. (biblical) Two persons mentioned in the New Testament ( Mark 15:21 and Romans 16:13)
  2. (given name, male) taken to use in the seventeenth century.
Rupert
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proper noun
  1. (mostly U.K.) (given name, male), a Low German variant of Robert brought to England by a Prince Rupert in the seventeenth century.
Russell
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proper noun
  1. An English, Scottish and Irish surname from the Norman nickname for someone with red hair
  2. A male given name, derived from the surname
rusty
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adjective (rust, ier)
  1. Affected by rust.
  2. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown.
  3. Having red or reddish-brown hair.
  4. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity.
Ruth
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proper noun (book of the Bible, Book of Ruth)
  1. A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
  2. (biblical character) Ruth the Moabite, around whom the text centers.
  3. (given name, female, from Hebrew), rarely used by non-Jews in the Middle Ages. Taken into regular use by Puritans .
Ryan
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proper noun
  1. A common Irish surname.
  2. (given name, male) derived from the surname, popular in all English-speaking countries from the 1970s to the 1990s.
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