ring – English noun declension

English noun forms of ring

Noun: ring
Singularring
Pluralrings

Sample Sentences

  • His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.
  • The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • onion rings
  • calamari rings
  • Lick my ring!
  • a ring of mushrooms growing in the wood
  • And hears the Muſes in a ring, / Ay round about Joves Altar ſing. [a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC, page 39:]
  • The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common. [1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:]
  • Soon Voyager will cross through the plane of Neptune's rings. This dusty, debris-laden zone is the most perilous passage. Most of the ring dust is the size of cigarette-smoke particles. [1990 August, Rick Gore, “Neptune: Voyager's Last Picture Show”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 40:]
  • a ring of grime around the bathtub
  • Individuals looking to add their own homepage to a particular ring are, however, more or less at the mercy of the ringmaster, who often maintains a ring homepage listing its acceptance (or membership) policies and an index of its member sites. [2002, Feroz Khan, Information Society in Global Age, page 100:]
  • Place me, O, place me in the dusty ring, / Where youthful charioteers contend for glory. [1707, Edmund Smith, Phaedra and Hippolitus:]
  • “If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight!” Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about fighting than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor. [2009 January 19, 0:14 from the start, in Meet the Soldier, spoken by Soldier (Rick May), Bellevue, Washington: Valve Corporation, via YouTube, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025:]
  • a crime ring; a prostitution ring; a bidding ring (at an auction sale)
  • the ruling ring at Constantinople [1877, Edward Augustus Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England:]
  • It's a blackmail ring, and the district attorneys get a share of the loot. [1928, Upton Sinclair, Boston:]
  • In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff. [2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:]
  • a benzene ring
  • The ring is common in the Huntingdonshire accounts of Ramsey Abbey. It was equal to half a quarter, i.e., is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties [1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168:]
  • Kernel Mode processes run in ring 0, and User Mode processes run in ring 3. [2007, Steve Anson, Steve Bunting, Mastering Windows Network Forensics and Investigation, page 70:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English ryng, from Old English hring (“ring, circle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hring, from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)krengʰ-, extended nasalized form of *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Doublet of rank and rink, as well as indirectly range.
2. Cognates
3. * West Frisian ring
4. * Low German Ring
5. * Dutch ring
6. * German Ring
7. * Swedish ring
8. * Finnish rengas
9. More distantly cognate with Proto-Slavic *krǫgъ (whence Bulgarian кръг (krăg), Polish krąg, Russian круг (krug)). See: Middle English Nouns 'ryng', Old English Nouns 'hring', Dutch Nouns 'ring', German Nouns 'Ring', Swedish Nouns 'ring', Finnish Nouns 'rengas', Bulgarian Nouns 'кръг', Polish Nouns 'krąg', Russian Nouns 'круг'.

Verbs referencing "ring"

French Nouns ring, Hungarian Nouns ring, French Nouns rang, English Nouns circus, German Nouns Ring, Latin Nouns carcer, Russian Nouns ринг.