Meanings
rumney1
plural rumneys · alternative romney
- countableuncountableA form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.
All black wines, over-hot, compound, strong, thick drinks, as muscadine, malmsey, alicant, rumney, brown bastard, metheglin, and the like […]
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 223
Rumney2
- A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
- A surname.
Origin
rumney · noun
Derived from Romania, at that time a common name for Greece and the southern Balkans, the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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rumney. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rumney
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