rum

noun

1. (uncountable)A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.

   “... I went aboard the Fellowship of 100 and 70 Tuns a Flemish bottom, the Master George Luxon of Bittiford in Devonshire, several of my friends came to bid me farewell, among the rest Captain Thomas Wannerton who drank to me a pint of kill-devil alias Rhum at a draught ...”

   “That the former orders concerning rum, sugar, and hammocks be still in force, viz., one half to be forfeited to the King, and one half to the informer.”

   “The Royal Navy used to issue a rum ration to sailors.”

2. (countable)A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.

   “Jake tossed down three rums.”

3. (countable)A spirit distilled from various preparations of sugarcane, particularly fermented cane sugar and molasses.

   “Bundaberg is one of my favourite rums.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A similar spirit distilled from similar preparations of sugarbeets, sorghum, etc.
5. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A strange person or thing.
6. (countable, obsolete, slang, uncountable)A country parson.

   “No company comes / But a rabble of tenants, and rusty dull rums.”

7. (British, colloquial, dated)Any odd person or thing.
8. (rare)The card game rummy.
9. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of real user monitoring.

   “RUM may involve sniffing the network connection, adding JavaScript to pages, installing agents on end user machines, or some combination thereof.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Fine, excellent, valuable.

   “having a rum time”

2. (UK, dated, informal)Strange, peculiar.

   “a rum idea; a rum fellow”

   “"Lor, Noah!" said Charlotte, "What a rum creature you are! Why don't you let the boy alone?"”

   “[H]e stared after Pynsent stupidly, and pronounced to the landlord over the counter that he was a rum one.”

   “The young men had exchanged few observations; but in crossing Union Square, in front of the monument to Washington—in the very shadow, indeed, projected by the image of the pater patriae—one of them remarked to the other, “It seems a rum-looking place.” “Ah, very odd, very odd,” said the other, who was the clever man of the two.”

   “"Can't you see him?" "Well, I almost thought I did—for a moment. It's such a rum light."”

name

1. (alt-of, alternative, archaic, obsolete)Alternative form of Rome: Rome (a major city in Italy).
2. (historical)An eyalet in the Ottoman Empire.
3. (historical)A former polity in Anatolia, a Seljuk sultanate.
4. (archaic)Synonym of Anatolia and the Byzantine Empire in historical Turkish contexts.
5. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Rùm, an island of the Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, United Kingdom.