rum
UK/ɹʌm/
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Northern England/ɹʊm/
rum noun: a spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
Noun (1)
rum (countable and uncountable, plural rums)
- A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- ... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...1639 September 24, John Josselyn, Journal in An Account of Two Voyages to New-England... (1673), p. 24
- That the former orders concerning rum, sugar, and hammocks be still in force, viz., one half to be forfeited to the King, and one half to the informer.1661 July 3, Orders of the Governor and Council of Jamaica in Colonial Papers: America and West Indies (1880), §123
- A serving of rum.
- Jake tossed down three rums.
- A kind or brand of rum.
- Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.
- A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
- A strange person or thing.
- Synonyms:
- odd duck, abnormality
- A country parson.
- No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.1729, Jonathan Swift, The Grand Question Debated of Hamilton's Bawn
Adjective
rum (comparative rummer, superlative rummest)
- Fine, excellent, valuable.
- having a rum time
- Synonyms:
- exceptional
- Strange, peculiar.
- a rum idea; a rum fellow
- "Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- bizarre
Noun (2)
rum (plural rums)
- Any odd person or thing.
Noun (3)
rum
- The card game rummy.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Rum
Rum
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Rum
Rum
- An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
- Synonyms:
- Sivas
- A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate.
- Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts.
- Synonyms:
- Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts
Proper noun (3) capitalized: Rum
Rum
- Alternative form of Rùm, an island of the Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Noun (4) capitalized: RUM
RUM (uncountable)
- Initialism of real user monitoring.
- RUM may involve sniffing the network connection, adding JavaScript to pages, installing agents on end user machines, or some combination thereof.2009, Alistair Croll, Sean Power, Complete Web Monitoring: Watching your visitors, performance, communities, and competitors, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 354
rum meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
rum in Hindi
- distilled spirit
- रम ram
rum in Tamil
- ரம்
rum in Urdu
- distilled spirit
- رم ram
More languagesFewer languages
- rum in Bengali
- রাম ram
- rum in Telugu
- రమ్ము rammu
- rum in Kannada
- ರಮ್
- rum in Punjabi
- ਰਮ
- rum in Odia
- ରମ୍
- rum in Tagalog
- ron
- rum in Arabic
- رَم ram
- rum in Malay
- rum
- rum in Persian
- رم rom
- rum in Thai
- เหล้ารัม lâo ram, รัม ram, เหล้า lâo
- rum in Vietnamese
- rượu rum, rum
- rum in Myanmar
- ရမ် ram
Examples of rum in a sentence
- The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
- — Why is rum gone? — One, because it is a vile drink that turns even the most respectable men into complete scoundrels!2003, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl:
- [H]e stared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 27, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I...
- It's a rum 'un, isn't it?" It was very rum indeed.1976, James Herriot, All Things Wise and Wonderful, page 346:
Synonyms of rum
- odd duck
- abnormality
- exceptional
- bizarre
- Sivas
- Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts
- rumbullion
- rumbustion
- Nelson's blood
- strange fish
Forms of rum
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rums |
| alternative form | rhum |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | rummer |
| superlative | rummest |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Rûm |
Origin of rum
In common use since at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include: * that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, names for rum also attested in the Caribbean during the mid-17th century, * that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer, * that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (however, these drinks were not originally made with rum), * that it derives from rum ("fine, good") or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, this origin is now considered unlikely)
From the earlier form rome (“good”, slang); possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.
Shortening of rummy.
Words formed from rum
- rum cull
- 500 rum
- boathouse rum
- antirum
- rumbud
- rumdriver
- rumhound
- rumly
- rummery
- rummish
- rumpot
- rumrunner
- rumrunning
- rumseller
- rumshop
- Rum-ville
- bay rum
- bush rum
- Cumberland rum butter
- hot buttered rum
- monkey rum
- rum baba
- rum ball
- rum bosun
- rum bud
- rum butter
- rum cake
- Rumchata
- rum cherry
- rum fit
- rum ham
- rum hole
- rum mill
- rum popo
- rum-runner
- rumtini
- rum tub
- sorghum rum
- rum deal
- rum go
- rumless
- rumness
Phrases with rum
- Rum Cay
- rum gos
- rum buds
- rum fits
- rum tubs
- rum babas
- rum balls
- rum cakes
- rum culls
- rum deals
- rum holes
- rum mills
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Words that rhyme with rum
Questions about rum
- What does rum mean?
- Rum means a spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.
- What is rum in Hindi?
- Rum in Hindi is रम (ram). See Rum meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use rum in a sentence?
- The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.
- What part of speech is rum?
- Rum can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce rum?
- Rum is pronounced /ɹʌm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of rum?
- The plural of rum is rums.
Words near rum in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rum (page history and authors); Rum (page history and authors); RUM (page history and authors); rum (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rum (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rum (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rum (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); rum (Odia, 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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