rumney

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noun

A form of Greek wine popular in England and Europe during the 14th to 16th centuries.

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Meanings

rumney1

nounrumney (countable and uncountable, plural rumneys)

plural rumneys · alternative romney

  1. 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

proper noun
  1. A suburban area and community in eastern Cardiff, Wales (OS grid ref ST2179).
  2. A town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.
  3. 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 · proper noun

Variant of Romney.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

rumney. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rumney

MLA

“rumney.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rumney. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rumney,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rumney.

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