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R.

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

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character/ɑː/Received-Pronunciation/ɑɹ/General-American/ɔːɹ/Ireland/aːɹ/Ireland

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

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Where this word 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.

num/ɑː/Received-Pronunciation/ɑɹ/General-American/ɔːɹ/Ireland/aːɹ/Ireland

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

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Where this word 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.

noun

  1. Symbol for reverse (“gear setting”).

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  2. Symbol for radius.

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  3. Abbreviation of Republican, especially preceding the constituent location.

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    R-Texas

  4. Abbreviation of Rex (“King”) or Regina (“Queen”), the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name.

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  5. Abbreviation of Rex (“King”) or Regina (“Queen”), the initial by which a British monarch signs documents after his or her name. 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 of ring.

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  7. Abbreviation of rook.

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  8. Abbreviation of run(s); the statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player.

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  9. Abbreviation of Thursday.

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  10. Abbreviation of region, in the sense of the regions of the Philippines.

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  11. Abbreviation of rotation.

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name

  1. Abbreviation of Redactor(s) in the context of the documentary hypothesis, referring to a compiler and editor of the Torah.

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  2. A programming language for statistics and data visualization.

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adj

  1. Abbreviation of restricted.

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  2. Abbreviation of reverse.

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  3. Abbreviation of right (as opposed to left).

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pron

  1. Eye dialect spelling of I.

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See I.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.