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