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rhino

UK/ˈɹaɪ.nəʊ/US/ˈɹaɪ.noʊ/

rhino noun: money.

Noun (1)

rhino (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, slang) Money.
    • When so be as a man has no money, why then, a savin and exceptin your onnur's reverence, a's but a poor dog. But when so be as a man as got the rhino, why then a may begin to hold up his head.1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anne St. Ives, vol. III.52
    • There I fell in with Betsy, and as she proved a regular out and outer, I spliced her, and a famous wedding we had of it, as long as the rhino lasted.1835, Frederick Marryat, The Pacha of Many Tales

Noun (2)

rhino (plural rhinos)

  1. (colloquial) A rhinoceros.
    • ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24
    • This cutting from an East African newspaper caught our eye last month: "The up mail train from Mombasa was held up for an hour at Kibwezi by an angry rhino on Monday night."1961 October, “Talking of Trains: B.R. exile at work?”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586

rhino meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi

rhino in Hindi

गैंडा

rhino in Tamil

காண்டாமிருகம்

rhino in Urdu

گینڈا, گینڈہ

rhino in Punjabi

ਗੈਂਡਾ
More languagesFewer languages
rhino in Odia
ଗଣ୍ଡା
rhino in Nepali
गैंडा, गेंडाको

Examples of rhino in a sentence

  • They said they'd never heard of medetomidine, but when the cop referred to it by its street name — rhino tranq — their ears perked up.
  • Its ʽcore faunaʼ consisted of the woolly mammoth, woolly rhino, saiga, muskox and the arctic fox.
  • Among them were the ancient palaeotheriids, early relatives of the rhinos, tapirs and horses.

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Forms of rhino

alternative formrino
pluralrhinos

Origin of rhino

Unknown.

Clipping of rhinoceros.

Words formed from rhino

Phrases with rhino

Words that rhyme with rhino

Questions about rhino

What does rhino mean?
Rhino means money.
What is rhino in Hindi?
Rhino in Hindi is गैंडा. See Rhino meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is rhino?
Rhino is a noun.
How do you pronounce rhino?
Rhino is pronounced /ˈɹaɪ.nəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of rhino?
The plural of rhino is rhinos.

Words near rhino in the dictionary

  1. Rhinish
  2. rhinitides
  3. rhinitis
  4. rhinitis medicamentosa
  5. rhinitis sicca
  6. rhino
  7. rhino beetle
  8. rhino beetles
  9. rhino ferries
  10. rhino ferry
  11. rhino-

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rhino (page history and authors); rhino (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rhino (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rhino (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rhino (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rhino (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rhino (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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