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r¹

  • /ɑː(ɹ)/ UK
  • /ɑɹ/ US
  • /ɔːɹ/ Ireland
  • /ˈɑɹə/
  • /ɹ/

Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

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

letter R · rs · r's

  1. letter, lowercase The eighteenth letter of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script. Except for their short, clipped accent and a certain funny some thing that they did, or rather did not do, to their r’s, they might have been born and bred on Pine Street.

number R · rs · r's

  1. lowercase The eighteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

r²

Where it comes from

From are and our, pronounced like the name of the letter r.

verb

  1. Internet, abbreviation Abbreviation of are.are How r u

determiner

  1. Internet, abbreviation Abbreviation of our.our This was supposed 2 be a SURPRISE, but the girls got it out of me. ☺ I wanted all of us 2 spend Xmas 2gether. By all, I mean r horses 2. Sooo . . . B, C, G, Z, & D, you have guests waiting @ BC. Zane, Valentino, Scout, Nero, & Polo r there! Now we can ride r horses when we r not volunteering & spend

R³

  • /ɑː/ UK
  • /ɑɹ/ US
  • /ɔːɹ/ Ireland
  • /aːɹ/ Ireland
  • /ˈɑɹə/

Sounds like ah, or, oar, ore, are, our, hour (in various accents) · Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From the Etruscan letter 𐌓 (r, “er”), from the Ancient Greek letter Ρ (R, “rho”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤓 (r, “reš”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓁶.

letter r · Rs · R's

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

number r · Rs · R's

  1. uppercase The eighteenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called ar and written in the Latin script.

R⁴

Where it comes from

Abbreviations.

noun

  1. symbol Symbol for reverse (“gear setting”).reverse
  2. symbol Symbol for radius.radius
  3. US, abbreviation Abbreviation of Republican, especially preceding the constituent location.Republican R-Texas
  4. abbreviation Abbreviation of Rex (“King”) or Regina (“Queen”), the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name.Rex
  5. The Crown, the government of a monarchy. The English case of R v R [1992] AC 599 ruled that rape can be committed by a husband against his wife.
  6. abbreviation Abbreviation of ring.ring
  7. abbreviation Abbreviation of rook.rook 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 e.p. Nxd6 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Qe3+ Be7 9. Nbd2 0-0 10. 0-0-0 Re8 11. Kb1 (=)
  8. abbreviation Abbreviation of run(s); the statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player.run(s)
  9. abbreviation, especially Abbreviation of Thursday.Thursday Lecs, T R 9:05; lab, M T W R or F 1:25—4:25, or M or W 7:30—10:30 p.m.
  10. Philippines, abbreviation Abbreviation of region, in the sense of the regions of the Philippines.region
  11. abbreviation Abbreviation of rotation.rotation

adjective

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of restricted.restricted
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of reverse.reverse
  3. abbreviation Abbreviation of right (as opposed to left).right

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Redactor(s) in the context of the documentary hypothesis, referring to a compiler and editor of the Torah.Redactor(s) in the context of the documentary hypothesis One needs to be careful, however, to distinguish between original P and the work of the later priestly Redactor (R), who edited P and other documents in the postexilic period.
  2. A programming language for statistics and data visualization.

R⁵

Where it comes from

See I.

pronoun

  1. England, informal, nonstandard, pronunciation spelling Eye dialect spelling of I.I

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