ruth
United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,295 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 7,593 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948) also: Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat
- the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
- a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others also: commiseration, pity, pathos the blind are too often objects of pity
- 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 also: Book of Ruth
ruth in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Such streams of ruth within me find no place.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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Too cold it is for thee, I fear, in truth, Return and get thy cloak, my little Ruth.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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He was united to the gentle Ruth Harding only the week before the father sailed on his second pilgrimage.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish · James Fenimore Cooper · Chapter 1
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Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth!
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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Ruth Haskins, the mother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, was left a widow in 1811, with a family of five little boys.
Poems Household Edition · Ralph Waldo Emerson · Chapter 1