Proper noun
(countable) A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
(uncountable) A placename:
A village in the committee area of Marr, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (OS grid ref NJ5046).
A village in Angus, Scotland (OS grid ref NO2848).
A hamlet in Badenoch district, Highland, Scotland (OS grid ref NH8133).
A city in Palo Alto County, Iowa, United States.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgAct II At Ruddigore Castle, Robin (now Sir Ruthven) tries to come to grips with being a bad baronet, a task at which he proves to be spectacularly lacking. Source: Internet
Barroll, 28. In 1602, after discovering that Anne had smuggled Beatrix Ruthven into Holyrood, James carried out a cross-examination of the entire household; Barroll, 27; Williams, 64–65. Source: Internet
At this time, she was 90 years old, and it was alluded that she had been kept alive by an amulet in the shape of an eye which granted its user protection, the amulet that Ruthven Sykes had been given by the demon Choronzon in exchange for Dream's helmet. Source: Internet
A Fury For God: the Islamist Attack on America by Malise Ruthven, 2002, p.135. Source: Internet
Ferris (1989), p. 338 Ruthven Todd states in his letter dated 23 November that the police were called, who then called the ambulance, while Ferris in his 1989 biography writes that Feltenstein was summoned again and called the ambulance. Source: Internet
Henry Lytton as Sir Ruthven Robin's weak crimes stir his ancestral ghosts from their usual haunt of the castle's portrait gallery. Source: Internet