A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh. / Ruth, the resident of Moab around whom the text centers. / A female given name from Hebrew.

(archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy. / (now rare) Repentance; regret; remorse. / (obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress.

(music) Alternative spelling of rute

Full of sorrow; sorrowful; woeful; rueful. / Causing pity; piteous. / Full of ruth or pity; merciful; compassionate.

The state or condition of being ruthful; sorrowfulness; contrition. / Mercifulness; pity.

plural of ruth

(Australia, New Zealand, informal) What I am telling you is true.

An island in the United States Virgin Islands.

The territory between Central and Eastern Europe inhabited by Rusyns, on the slopes of the Carpathian Mountains in parts of Ukraine, Poland and Slovakia.

A metallic chemical element (symbol Ru) with an atomic number of 44. / (countable) An atom of this element.