ren
/ɹɛn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A kidney.
noun
One’s name, as part of the soul in ancient Egyptian mythology.
noun
name
Initialism of Raw Egg Nationalist, a far-right Internet personality.
Example Sentences
- "Having treated laſt of the expulſion of the inteſtinal fæces, we come next to conſider thoſe organs, which ſeparate and throw off another principal excrementitious matter, to wit, urine. The firſt of which is the renes or kidneys."
- "We find, however, that the detrita, consisting principally of effete hydrogen and carbon, brought into the circulation by the absorbents, are constantly making their escape from the system by way of the renes, skin, and lungs, in the forms of water, and carbonic-acid."
- "It would probably have been considered an important omission if I had not mentioned Water as a substance excreted freely by the renes or kidneys."
- "Renal. Belonging to the ren or kidney."
- "For the Ren did not belong to the man, but came out of the Celestial Waters to enter an infant in the hour of his birth and might not stir again until it was time to go back."
- "“REN and Man’s World represents a paradigm case of how masculinity is being articulated at the heart of rightwing politics,” said Scott Burnett, an assistant professor of African studies and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: -, 妊
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.