ruth   (TTS Sound)

The noun ruth has 4 senses

• Ruth, Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat -- (United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948))


• Ruth -- (the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament)


• commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos -- (a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity")


• Ruth, Book of Ruth -- (a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died)