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romney

UK/ˈɹɒmni/US/ˈɹɑːmni/

romney is the alternative form of rumney.

Meaning of rumney

Noun

rumney (countable and uncountable, plural rumneys)

  1. A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
    • All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […], New York, 2001, p.223

See all 4 meanings of rumney

Proper noun capitalized: Romney

Romney

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Randolph Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana.
  3. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
  4. An unincorporated community in Eastland County, Texas.
  5. A city, the county seat of Hampshire County, West Virginia, named after Romney in Kent.
  6. An English earldom.

Noun capitalized: Romney

Romney (plural Romneys)

  1. One of a particular English breed of small sheep with long wool and horns.

Forms of romney

Noun
pluralromneys
pluralRomneys
Proper noun
alternative formRumney

Origin of romney

From a name of a village in Kent (see Old Romney), from a compound of Latin rumen (“gullet”) and Old English ēa (“river”).

Words formed from romney

Phrases with romney

Questions about romney

What does romney mean?
Romney means a surname.
What is romney the alternative form of?
Romney is the alternative form of rumney.
What part of speech is romney?
Romney can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce romney?
Romney is pronounced /ˈɹɒmni/ (UK).

Words near romney in the dictionary

  1. Rommanies
  2. Rommany
  3. Rommel
  4. Rommels
  5. Romnesia
  6. romney
  7. Romney hut
  8. Romney huts
  9. Romney Marsh
  10. romneya
  11. romneyas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: romney (page history and authors); Romney (page history and authors); rumney (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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