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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948);
[syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat]

2. the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament;

3. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;
- Example: "the blind are too often objects of pity"
[syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]

4. a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died;
[syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ruth \Ruth\ (r[udd]th), n. [From Rue, v.: cf. Icel.
   hrygg[eth], hryg[eth].]
   1. Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness.
      [Poetic] "They weep for ruth." --Chaucer. "Have ruth of
      the poor." --Piers Plowman.
      [1913 Webster]

            To stir up gentle ruth,
            Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth.
                                                  --Spenser.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a
      pitiful sight. [Obs.]
      [1913 Webster]

            It had been hard this ruth for to see. --Chaucer.
      [1913 Webster]

            With wretched miseries and woeful ruth. --Spenser.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Ruth
    n 1: United States professional baseball player famous for
         hitting home runs (1895-1948) [syn: Ruth, Babe Ruth,
         George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat]
    2: the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in
       the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
    3: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
       others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn:
       commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]
    4: a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who
       was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who
       stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died
       [syn: Ruth, Book of Ruth]


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

RUTH

   D.A. Harrison at Newcastle University.  Real-time language
   based on LispKit.  Uses timestamps and real-time clocks.

   ["RUTH: A Functional Language for Real-Time Programming",
   D. Harrison in PARLE: Parallel Architectures and Languages
   Europe, LNCS 259, Springer 1987, pp.297-314].