Ruritanian

English 2010 May 19 2011 May 19 Etymology From en Ruritania an, after the fictional kingdom used as the setting for stories by Anthony Hope (1863–1933). Pronunciation en /ˌɹʊə.ɹɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/ UK en /ˌɹʊɹ.ɪˈteɪ.ni.ən/ US en en-us-Ruritanian.ogg US Adjective Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction. The New Democratic Republics of America and France 10 601 1 He Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau had, it is true, indulged in a sort of Ruritanian flirtation with the queen, seen her secretly, pronounced her very solemnly the "only man" about the king, and made rather a fool of himself in that matter, but his schemes were drawn upon a much larger scale than the scale of the back stairs of the Tuileries. en 1922 w:Walter Lippman X Public Opinion 2007 79 These claims were called the Greater Ruritania by the cultivated classes who regarded Kipling, Treitschke, and Maurice Barres as one hundred percent Ruritanian. But the grandiose idea aroused no enthusiasm abroad. So holding this finest flower of the Ruritanian genius, as their poet laureate said, to their hearts, Ruritania's statesmen went forth to divide and conquer. Used to describe a fictitious and generic foreign government or person, used to state a general or hypothetical situation. en 1968 Robert Ellsworth Elder The Information Machine 339 In practice, the Ruritanian regime is autocratic, controlling business, government, finance, and military posts. Translations of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue French: fr chimérique Spanish: es quimérico used to describe a fictitious and generic foreign government or person Finnish: fi vinkuintialainen French: fr Poldavie, fr Syldavie, fr Bordurie Noun A person from the fictional land of Ruritania. Translations person from the fictional land of Ruritania Finnish: fi vinkuintialainen French: fr huron, fr persan German: de Ruritanier m, de Ruritanierin f Related terms en Ruritania en terms derived from fiction en Fictional characters