| Romeo |
in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, a youth whose love for Juliet, a girl from an enemy family, ends in both their deaths. [2 definitions] |
| Romeo and Juliet |
a tragic play about ill-fated young lovers, written by William Shakespeare. |
| romp |
to move or play in a carefree and lively or boisterous manner. [4 definitions] |
| rompers |
a one-piece playsuit with short bloomers worn esp. by young children. |
| Romulus |
in Roman legend, the founder of Rome, who, along with his twin brother Remus, had been abandoned as an infant and had survived by suckling a wolf. |
| Ronald Reagan |
the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975), who had an earlier career as a film actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild. President Reagan worked to end the Cold War and to improve U.S. relations with the Soviet Union; born Ronald Wilson Reagan (b.1911--d.2004). |
| rondeau |
a short lyrical poem of French origin that consists of three stanzas with an unrhymed opening phrase recurring as a refrain. [3 definitions] |
| rondel |
a short poem consisting of fourteen lines based on two rhymes, the opening couplet of which is repeated in the middle and at the end. [2 definitions] |
| rondo |
a musical work or movement, often the last movement of a sonata, in which the principal theme is repeated in the same key at least three times, with subordinate themes occurring between repetitions. |
| ronin |
a feudal Japanese soldier, no longer in the service of a lord but operating independently, often as a wandering bandit. |
| rood |
a crucifix, esp. a large one at the entrance of a church chancel. [3 definitions] |
| rood screen |
an ornamental screen or partition, usu. surmounted by a crucifix, that separates the choir or chancel from the nave of a church. |
| roof |
the surface or structure covering the top of a building. [3 definitions] |
| roofer |
a person who makes or repairs roofs. |
| roof garden |
a garden on the flat roof of an apartment house, hotel, or the like. [2 definitions] |
| roofing |
materials used for making a roof. [2 definitions] |
| roofless |
combined form of roof. |
| rooftop |
the roof of a building, esp. its upper surface. |
| rooftree |
a horizontal beam running the length of a roof at its peak; ridgepole. |
| rook1 |
a black European bird, related to and resembling the crow, that nests in treetops in flocks. [2 definitions] |
| rook2 |
a chess piece that can move over any number of empty squares sideways or forward and backward; castle. |