Rum
adj, name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses. uncountable
"The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors."
- 2 Any odd person or thing. British, colloquial, dated
- 3 The card game rummy. rare
- 4 Initialism of real user monitoring. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
"RUM may involve sniffing the network connection, adding JavaScript to pages, installing agents on end user machines, or some combination thereof."
- 5 a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards wordnet
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- 6 A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.; A serving of rum. countable
"Jake tossed down three rums."
- 7 liquor distilled from fermented molasses wordnet
- 8 A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.; A kind or brand of rum. countable
"Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums."
- 9 A strange person or thing. countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
- 10 A country parson. countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
"No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums."
- 1 Fine, excellent, valuable. obsolete
"having a rum time"
- 2 Strange, peculiar. UK, dated, informal
"a rum idea; a rum fellow"
- 1 beyond or deviating from the usual or expected wordnet
- 1 Alternative form of Rome: Rome (a major city in Italy). alt-of, alternative, archaic, obsolete
- 2 An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire. historical
- 3 Alternative form of Rùm, an island of the Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom. alt-of, alternative
- 4 A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate. historical
- 5 Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts. archaic
Example
More examples"Even if you don't like rum, try a glass of this."
Etymology
In common use since by at least 1654, of uncertain origin. Theories include: * that it derives from rum (“fine, good”), or from the last syllable of Latin saccharum (given the harsh taste of earlier rum, the first theory is now considered unlikely), * that it is a shortening of rumbullion or rumbustion, or * that it is from a Romani word for "strong, potent" which is (perhaps) the source of ramboozle and rumfustian (but these drinks were not originally made with rum) * that it derives from rummer, from Dutch roemer
From the earlier form rome (“good”, slang); possibly of Romani origin; compare rom.
Shortening of rummy.
From Middle English and Old English, from Proto-West Germanic *Rūmu, from Proto-Germanic *Rūmō under influence from Late Latin Rōma (“Rome; Constantinople; Roman Empire”), from Latin Rōma (“Rome”).
From Seljuk Old Anatolian Turkish and Ottoman Turkish روم (Rum, “Rome; Byzantine Empire; central Anatolia”), from Arabic رُوم (Rūm, “Rome; Byzantine Empire”), from Middle Persian 𐭧𐭫𐭥𐭬 (Hrom), from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía, “Byzantine Empire”), from Latin Romani (“Romans”), from Roma (“Rome”). Doublet of Roma and Rome.