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Ren

proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue

  • //rɛn//

A surname from Chinese.

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of RenaissanceinformalClipping of Renaissance, particularly in the context of Renaissance fairs.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

From the atonal Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 妊 (Rèn), an ancient surname also used as an adjective meaning "pregnant". Doublet of Jen.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).