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rumney

rumney noun: a form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.

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

Proper noun capitalized: Rumney

Rumney

  1. A suburban area and community in eastern Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST2179).
  2. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
  3. A surname.

Forms of rumney

pluralrumneys
alternative formromney

Origin of rumney

Derived from Romania, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.

Variant of Romney.

Words formed from rumney

Questions about rumney

What does rumney mean?
Rumney means a form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
What part of speech is rumney?
Rumney can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of rumney?
The plural of rumney is rumneys.

Words near rumney in the dictionary

  1. rumna
  2. rumnah
  3. rumnahs
  4. rumnas
  5. rumness
  6. rumney
  7. rumneys
  8. rumor
  9. rumor campaign
  10. rumor campaigns
  11. rumor has it

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