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roebuck

UK/ˈɹəʊ.bʌk/

roebuck noun: a male roe deer.

Noun

roebuck (plural roebucks)

  1. A male roe deer.
    • From the thick copse the roebucks bound,
      The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]1807, “Cadyow Castle”, in The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, volume 4, Walter Scott

Proper noun capitalized: Roebuck

Roebuck (countable and uncountable, plural Roebucks)

  1. A surname.
  2. A census-designated place in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States.
  3. A townland in County Dublin, Ireland.

roebuck meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Arabic

roebuck in Tamil

இதுவும் ஒரு சிற்றினம் ஆகும்

roebuck in Bengali

পুরুষ রো হরিণ

roebuck in Arabic

male roe deer
يَحْمُور yaḥmūr

Forms of roebuck

Noun
pluralroebucks
Proper noun
pluralRoebucks

Origin of roebuck

From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe + buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.

Words formed from roebuck

Questions about roebuck

What does roebuck mean?
Roebuck means a male roe deer.
What is roebuck in Tamil?
Roebuck in Tamil is இதுவும் ஒரு சிற்றினம் ஆகும். See Roebuck meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is roebuck?
Roebuck can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce roebuck?
Roebuck is pronounced /ˈɹəʊ.bʌk/ (UK).
What is the plural of roebuck?
The plural of roebuck is roebucks.

Words near roebuck in the dictionary

  1. Roe's poison
  2. roe-sick
  3. Roeber
  4. Roebers
  5. roeblingite
  6. roebuck
  7. roebuck-berries
  8. roebuck-berry
  9. roebucks
  10. Roecker
  11. Roeckers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: roebuck (page history and authors); Roebuck (page history and authors); roebuck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); roebuck (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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