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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)
--1 is a kind of ballplayer, baseball player
- Ruth - the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
--2 is a kind of wife, married woman
- commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos - a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
--3 is a kind of sympathy, fellow feeling
- 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
--4 is a kind of book
--4 is a part of Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings; Old Testament
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