RULING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself)

Synonyms:

opinion; ruling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ruling" is a kind of...):

judgement; judgment; judicial decision ((law) the determination by a court of competent jurisdiction on matters submitted to it)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ruling"):

fatwa (a ruling on a point of Islamic law that is given by a recognized authority)

Instance hyponyms:

Bakke decision (a ruling by the Supreme Court on affirmative action; the Court ruled in 1978 that medical schools are entitled to consider race as a factor in their admission policy)

Derivation:

rule (decide on and make a declaration about)

II. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exercising power or authority

Synonyms:

regnant; reigning; ruling

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)

III. (verb)

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb rule

Credits

Context examples:

This is the sort of shelf on which young wives and mothers may consent to be laid, safe from the restless fret and fever of the world, finding loyal lovers in the little sons and daughters who cling to them, undaunted by sorrow, poverty, or age, walking side by side, through fair and stormy weather, with a faithful friend, who is, in the true sense of the good old Saxon word, the 'house-band', and learning, as Meg learned, that a woman's happiest kingdom is home, her highest honor the art of ruling it not as a queen, but as a wise wife and mother.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The job of a ruling planet is to take good care of you, and each ruling planet does their job well.