ruritanian
/ˌɹʊɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction.
adj
Used to describe a fictitious and generic foreign government or person, used to state a general or hypothetical situation.
Example Sentences
- "He [Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau] had, it is true, indulged in a sort of Ruritanian flirtation with the queen, seen her secretly, pronounced her very solemnly the "only man" about the king, and made rather a fool of himself in that matter, but his schemes were drawn upon a much larger scale than the scale of the back stairs of the Tuileries."
- "These claims were called the Greater Ruritania by the cultivated classes who regarded Kipling, Treitschke, and Maurice Barres as one hundred percent Ruritanian. But the grandiose idea aroused no enthusiasm abroad. So holding this finest flower of the Ruritanian genius, as their poet laureate said, to their hearts, Ruritania's statesmen went forth to divide and conquer."
- "In practice, the Ruritanian regime is autocratic, controlling business, government, finance, and military posts."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɹʊɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/
- British English: /ˌɹʊə.ɹɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/