English dictionary: words starting with ron

Meanings of Ron:

abbreviation

Romanian new leu (or lei).

adjective

Abbreviation for run of network

Meanings of Rond:

abbreviation

Delaware (in official postal use).

Meanings of Rondache:

noun

A small circular shield, a target. compare "roundel".

Meanings of Rondacher:

noun

A small circular shield, a target. compare "roundel".

Meanings of Ronde:

noun

A dance in which the dancers move in a circle.

Usage examples:

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the ronde they perform, laughing and prancing in a circle of d…

Meanings of Rondeau:

noun

A poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain.

Usage examples:

Their fourth exercise/poem was their choice of a form using repetition or refrain: a villanelle, ro…

Meanings of Rondeaux:

noun

A poem of ten or thirteen lines with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words used twice as a refrain.

Usage examples:

Their fourth exercise/poem was their choice of a form using repetition or refrain: a villanelle, ro…

Meanings of Rondel:

noun

A rondeau, especially one of thirteen or fourteen lines set in three stanzas, with only two rhymes throughout and a two line refrain that opens the poem and recurs at the end of the second and third stanzas.

Usage examples:

We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and ronde…

Meanings of Rondelet:

noun

A short poem related to the rondeau, and typically consisting of five or seven lines with two rhymes; the verse form in which this is written; (also more generally) = "rondeau". compare "rondel", roundlet .

Meanings of Rondeletia:

noun

An evergreen shrub or small tree of the tropical american genus rondeletia (family rubiaceae); especially any of the various kinds cultivated for their clusters of scented tubular flowers, typically red or pink in colour. also (in form rondeletia): the genus itself.

Meanings of Rondelets:

noun

A short poem related to the rondeau, and typically consisting of five or seven lines with two rhymes; the verse form in which this is written; (also more generally) = "rondeau". compare "rondel", roundlet .

Meanings of Rondelier:

noun

A person who composes rondels; specifically any of a group of poets of the 1870s and 1880s who experimented with complex stanza forms based on the medieval french rondeau.

Meanings of Rondelle:

noun

A circular piece of something; a circular shape or pattern; specifically a disc-shaped bead with a central hole, used especially in jewellery. compare "round", "roundel".

Meanings of Rondelles:

noun

A circular piece of something; a circular shape or pattern; specifically a disc-shaped bead with a central hole, used especially in jewellery. compare "round", "roundel".

Meanings of Rondels:

noun

A rondeau, especially one of thirteen or fourteen lines set in three stanzas, with only two rhymes throughout and a two line refrain that opens the poem and recurs at the end of the second and third stanzas.

Usage examples:

We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and ronde…

Meanings of Rondo:

noun

A musical form with a recurring leading theme, often found in the final movement of a sonata or concerto.

Usage examples:

The same term can be used appropriately for sections of sonata rondos or concerto movements.

Meanings of Rondos:

noun

A musical form with a recurring leading theme, often found in the final movement of a sonata or concerto.

Usage examples:

The same term can be used appropriately for sections of sonata rondos or concerto movements.

Meanings of Rondure:

noun

Roundness.

Meanings of Rondures:

noun

Roundness.

Meanings of Rone:

noun

A gutter for carrying off rain from a roof.

Usage examples:

The rats come down the rone pipes

Meanings of Rong:

noun

A member of a sikkimese people: = "lepcha".

adjective

Lepcha.

Meanings of Ronga:

noun

A language belonging to the south-east bantu group and the tsonga subgroup, spoken by a people living in the delagoa bay area of southern mozambique.

adjective

Of or relating to the ronga or their language.

Meanings of Rongeur:

noun

Any of various types of surgical forceps having a biting action, typically used to remove small pieces of bone. also "rongeur forceps".

Meanings of Ronggeng:

noun

In malaysia: a dancing girl; a female professional dancer who performs with a ronggeng troupe.

Meanings of Ronin:

noun

(in feudal japan) a wandering samurai who had no lord or master.

Usage examples:

In 1614 hideyori fortified himself inside osaka castle with over 100,000 troops, many of whom were …