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Ri
//ɹiː// name, noun
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of Rhode Island: a state of the United States. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 Alternative form of Yi. alt-of, alternative
- 3 Abbreviation of Riau: a province of Indonesia. abbreviation, alt-of
- 4 Initialism of Raffles Institution. Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"He's illiterate […] Seriously, how did he get into RI?"
Noun
- 1 Initialism of radioisotope. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
- 2 rex imperator (“king-emperor”) or regina imperatrix (“queen-empress”); the initials by which a British monarch signed documents after his or her name from 1877 until 1947.
- 3 A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
- 4 The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.
- 5 Initialism of radio interference. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Etymology
From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 리 (ri), from Chinese 里 (lǐ). Doublet of li.
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