1. Compassion or pity for another's misfortune
   "She felt ruth for the homeless people she passed on her way to work";
   - commiseration, pity, pathos

1. 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
   - Book of Ruth
    
2. The great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament
    
3. United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)
   - Babe Ruth, George Herman Ruth, Sultan of Swat

Derived forms: ruths

Type of: ballplayer, baseball player, book, fellow feeling, married woman, sympathy, wife, wifey [informal]

Part of: Hagiographa, Ketubim, Ketuvim, Old Testament, Writings

Encyclopedia: Ruth, NC