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Meaning of rum | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ɹʌm

Definitions

  1. Any odd person or thing.
    British, colloquial, dated
  2. The card game rummy.
    rare
  3. An island of the Inner Hebrides, in Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.
  4. An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
    historical
  5. Initialism of real user monitoring.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  6. ISO 639-2/B language code for Romanian
  7. A distilled spirit derived from fermented cane sugar and molasses.
    uncountable
  8. rummy 1.
  9. A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate.
    historical
  10. A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses
  11. A serving of rum.
    countable
  12. British Slang. Deviating from the customary:bizarre, cranky, curious, eccentric, erratic, freakish, idiosyncratic, odd, outlandish, peculiar, quaint, queer, quirky, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual, weird.
  13. Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts.
    archaic
  14. A serving of rum
  15. A kind or brand of rum.
    countable
  16. a type of alcoholic drink, a spirit made from sugar cane. a bottle of rum. rum روم: شَراب كُحولي ром rum rum der Rum rom ρούμιron rumm نوشیدنی rommi rhumרום शराब rum rum rum, (minuman keras) romm rum ラム酒 럼주 romas rums rum rumromrum د څښاک rum rom ром rum rum rum rom เหล้ารัม rom 萊姆酒 ром ایک قسم کی شراب rượu rom 朗姆酒糖酒
  17. A kind or brand of rum
  18. A strange person or thing.
    countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
  19. An alcoholic liquor distilled from fermented molasses or sugarcane.
  20. A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc
  21. A country parson.
    countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable
  22. Intoxicating beverages.
  23. Odd; strange.
  24. Presenting danger or difficulty.
  25. (Brewing) spirit made from sugar cane, either coloured brownish-red by the addition of caramel or by maturation in oak containers, or left white
  26. slang Brit strange; peculiar; odd
    slang
  27. (Card Games) short for rummy1

Equivalents

العربية شراب الروم
Български ром
Bosanski Rom
Čeština rum
Deutsch Rum
Ελληνικά ρούμι
Español ron
Suomi rommi
Français rum
עברית רום
हिन्दी आसव रम
Hrvatski Rom
Italiano rum
日本語 ラム
한국어
Kurdî Rom ron Rûm
Polski rum
Português rum
Română rom
Српски Rom
Türkçe rom
Українська ром

Examples

“The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.”
“Jake tossed down three rums.”
“Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.”
“No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.”
“RUM may involve sniffing the network connection, adding JavaScript to pages, installing agents on end user machines, or some combination thereof.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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