Ri

//ɹiː// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Rhode Island: a state of the United States. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    Alternative form of Yi. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    Abbreviation of Riau: a province of Indonesia. abbreviation, alt-of
  4. 4
    Initialism of Raffles Institution. Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "He's illiterate […] Seriously, how did he get into RI?"

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of radioisotope. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  2. 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. 3
    A Korean unit of distance equivalent to about 393 m.
  4. 4
    The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the second note of a major scale, enharmonic to me.
  5. 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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