'Ruth' definitions:
Definition of 'Ruth'
(from WordNet)
noun
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat]
noun
The great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
noun
A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]
noun
A book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died [syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth]
Definition of 'Ruth'
From: GCIDE
- Ruth \Ruth\ (r[udd]th), n. [From Rue, v.: cf. Icel. hrygg[eth], hryg[eth].]
- 1. Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. [Poetic] "They weep for ruth." --Chaucer. "Have ruth of the poor." --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
- To stir up gentle ruth, Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- It had been hard this ruth for to see. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- With wretched miseries and woeful ruth. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'ruth'
From: Easton
- Ruth a friend, a Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, whose father, Elimelech, had settled in the land of Moab. On the death of Elimelech and Mahlon, Naomi came with Ruth, her daughter-in-law, who refused to leave her, to Bethlehem, the old home from which Elimelech had migrated. There she had a rich relative, Boaz, to whom Ruth was eventually married. She became the mother of Obed, the grandfather of David. Thus Ruth, a Gentile, is among the maternal progenitors of our Lord (Matt. 1:5). The story of "the gleaner Ruth illustrates the friendly relations between the good Boaz and his reapers, the Jewish land system, the method of transferring property from one person to another, the working of the Mosaic law for the relief of distressed and ruined families; but, above all, handing down the unselfishness, the brave love, the unshaken trustfulness of her who, though not of the chosen race, was, like the Canaanitess Tamar (Gen. 38:29; Matt. 1:3) and the Canaanitess Rahab (Matt. 1:5), privileged to become the ancestress of David, and so of 'great David's greater Son'" (Ruth 4:18-22).
Definition of 'ruth'
From: Hitchcock
- Ruth, drunk; satisfied
Synonyms of 'ruth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- attrition,
- benevolence,
- clemency,
- commiseration,
- compassion,
- compunction,
- condolence,
- contrition,
- favor,
- feeling,
- forbearance,
- forgiveness,
- grace,
- humanity,
- kindness,
- leniency,
- mercy,
- mitigation,
- pardon,
- pathos,
- penance,
- penitently,
- pity,
- quarter,
- relief,
- remorse,
- remorsefulness,
- repentance,
- reprieve,
- rue,
- self-pity,
- sympathy
Ruth, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Ruth, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
Population (2000) :
329
Housing Units (2000) :
155
Land area (2000) :
0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.438794 sq. miles (1.136471 sq. km)
FIPS code :
58420
Located within :
North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location :
35.383224 N, 81.943365 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.