Ruth
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A feeling of pity, compassion. Remorse, misery, distress.
Ruth
Part of speech: proper noun
Definition: A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.Ruth the Moabite, around whom the text centers., rarely used by non-Jews in the Middle Ages. Taken into regular use by Puritans .
Example sentence: I do remember going shopping with my mother; I think the name of the store was Ruth Atkins. I don't know why I can remember that. It's probably because it's not the name.