R Definition

är
noun
The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek rho, a borrowing from the Phoenician.
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Any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the (r) of rude.
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A type or impression for r or R.
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The 18th in a series.
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The eighteenth in a sequence or group.
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Synonyms:
abbreviation
Radius.
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Range.
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Received.
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Recto.
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Response.
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adjective
Of r or R.
Webster's New World
Eighteenth in a sequence or group.
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Shaped like R.
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pronoun
An island off the west coast of France, by La Rochelle.
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A Soviet rocket modelled on the V-2; the Scunner.

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symbol
Molar gas constant.
Webster's New World

(informal) ASCII notation for the registered trademark symbol ®.

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The currency unit real (current Brazilian unit of currency).

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(computing) The ASCII control character device control 2 in caret notation.

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letter

The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

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The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

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numeral

The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

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The ordinal number eighteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

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verb

(abbreviation, slang, text messaging, Internet) Are (in text messaging and internet conversations)

How r u "” “How are you?"
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prefix

(chemistry) One of two mirror-image forms of a stereocenter, part of a diastereomer.

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Other Word Forms of R

Noun

Singular:
r
Plural:
r-s

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to R

  • the three R's

Origin of R

  • Old English lower case letter r, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case r of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter áš±.

    From Wiktionary

  • From are, pronounced like the name of the letter r

    From Wiktionary

  • Abbreviation of Latin rectus (“right”)

    From Wiktionary

R Sentence Examples

  • R seemed to be more distant but no less attentive, and perhaps under his veil of discretion, is even more technically adroit.

  • Orchestral wind-parts have been discovered belonging to Haydn's string-quartet Op. r, No.

  • In 1875 a number of Russian Mennonites (descendants of the Anabaptists of the Reformation) came to the r.

  • In the third period final s has everywhere become r.

  • This is shown by the occasional appearance of r instead of final s.

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