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Plural of rube

regular plural

The plural of rube is rubes.

Forms of rube

Singularrube /ɹuːb/
Pluralrubes /ɹuːbz/
Countablecountable

Rubes in a sentence

  • Russo had been working as a salesman, selling Great Books of the Western World, hawking the canon to the rubes.1992 February 2, Mitzel, “Clay Shaw, The Quean Network & That Kennedy Killing”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 12. From the entry canon

Meaning of rube

  1. noun A person of rural heritage; a yokel.
  2. noun An uninformed, unsophisticated, or unintelligent person.

Full definition of rube

Questions about the plural of rube

What is the plural of rube?
The plural of rube is rubes.
Is rube countable?
Rube is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rube (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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