Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A limit that when passed or exceeded permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To lurch. (See lurch, transitive verb) In rubicon piquet, when the loser's score does not reach 100 it is added to the winner's. In rubicon bezique, see the extract.
Wiktionary
- n. An ancient Latin name for a small river in northern Italy which flows into the Adriatic Sea. It marked the boundary between the Roman province of Gaul and the Roman heartland. Its crossing by Julius Caesar in 49 BC began a civil war.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anc. geog.) A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Cæsar.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul; Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of war
- n. a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment
Etymologies
- Latin Rubicō, Rubicōn-, Rubicon, a short river of north-central Italy, the crossing of which by Julius Caesar and his army in 49 B.C. began a civil war. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Finally, an action sequence in Rubicon, as Will (who has finally connected the dots regarding the Fishers Island brotherhood) delivers an exposition dump to Katherine about the Big Conspiracy, and when he gets home, finds hit man Bloom (acting on Truxton Spangler's orders) waiting to set him up to make his death look like a heroin OD.”
“News Corp. has obtained a minority stake in Rubicon Project, a Web advertising firm, in exchange for its online ad group Fox Audience Network.”
The Wall Street Journal: News Corp. Swaps Business for Stake in Rubicon
“AMC has shrewdly scheduled the program not just to help introduce "Rubicon" -- another new drama -- but seemingly to maximize its exposure while the latest round of Emmy ballots are in circulation.”
“Rubicon' -- AMC's march to quality TV continues drama on television this summer.”
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“(Coincidentally, there is a track here called Rubicon which is also the subtitle of one of the Icon albums (and a track from that same album)).”
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“He had not, although "the movie guy" aka Francis Ford Coppola asked Mr. Graves for some sketches shortly after he'd purchased the old Inglenook property, now known as Rubicon.”
“The name refers to the Rubicon, a river separating ancient Gaul and the Roman Empire.”
“As part of the acquisition, more than 100 FAN employees will be joining Rubicon, which is based in Santa Monica, Calif.”
The Wall Street Journal: News Corp. Swaps Business for Stake in Rubicon
“Executive producer Henry Bromell demonstrates his ambition best in introductory notes for the press, beginning with a long paragraph in which he explains, for the benefit of people who did not take Latin in school, that there's this river in Italy called the Rubicon ... and in ancient Rome, etc., etc., etc. AMC”
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Thresholds
we are all just passing through.
(boundaries, portals and liminal spaces/times)cockcrow, interface, thin line, portal, postern, littoral, interstice, port, membrane, skin, crepuscule, dawn and 309 more...
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My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1459 more...
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micellaneous
hinky, heath, peat, cicatrix, lark, chateau, gapeseed, obstreperous, mixen, addax, syllogism, colligate and 100 more...
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for the betterment of tomorrow
jaded, moiety, ruse, artifice, judicious, rumination, beleaguer, anemic, imperative, callous, caress, pompous and 8 more...
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