Word info Synonyms

ring in

Speech parts

1. ring in - Noun

2. ring in - Verb

Meaning

To make a phone call to (this place).
John has just rung in sick. He won't be back til Monday, he says.

(transitive) To celebrate by ringing of bells or as if by ringing of the bells.
We will ring in the New Year at a ski resort.


ring in (third-person singular simple present rings in, present participle ringing in, simple past and past participle ringed in)

(transitive) To encircle, to surround in a ring, engirdle.

A replacement made at the last minute, usually in a sporting context.

An outsider.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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ring-in

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Examples

Let us rejoice and let us sing and dance and ring in the new: Hail Atlantis! Donovan

I'm going to take you out of here... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning. Haruki Murakami

The continuous cries for help - from children and women and men - ring in my ears, even today seventy-seven years later. Amartya Sen

Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner. Oscar Wilde

Like a gold ring in a pigs snout is a woman without descretion. Moroccan Proverb

What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout? Latin Proverb

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