Rubicon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RUBICON in dictionary:

VERB:
• to win at piquet in this way
• (in bezique) to beat before the loser has managed to gain as many as 1000 points
NOUN:
• a point of no return
• a stream in north-eastern Italy that marked the ancient boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul. Julius Caesar led his army across it into Italy in 49 BC, breaking the law forbidding a general to lead an army out of his province, and so committing himself to war against the Senate and Pompey. The ensuing civil war resulted in victory for Caesar after three years.
• A small river which separated Italy from Cisalpine Gaul, the province alloted to Julius Caesar.
• the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul; Caesar\'s crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of war
• a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment
• point of no return
• (in piquet) an act of winning a game against an opponent whose total score is less than 100, in which case the loser's score is added to rather than subtracted from the winner's.
• score a rubicon against (one's opponent).

Words related to RUBICON

rubiconed14 rubiconing15 rubicons12

Words that contain RUBICON

rubicons12 rubiconed14 rubiconing15

How to use RUBICON in a sentence

• Caesar then no longer hesitated, but with his army crossed the Rubicon, which was an insignificant stream, but was the Rome-ward boundary of his province.
• And when Jack stepped into the Rubicon he did not splash around or look back.
• All south of the Rubicon was territory reserved for the immediate jurisdiction of the city.
• To cross the Rubicon with an army on the way to Rome was rebellion and treason.
• He advanced, therefore, toward the Rubicon with a small force.
• Every movement would be the crossing of the Rubicon.
• Hence they amuse their hearers with allusions to Caesar and Lycurgus, the Rubicon, and Thermopylae.
• The reputation of having conquered an island, and the passage of the British Channel, made way for the passage of the Rubicon, and the battle of Pharsalia.
• RUBICON This game may be played with any number of players, and is especially adapted for a school or lawn game.
• He had been on the point of saying that she had a very different aspect in the stalls of the Rubicon Theatre.
• Should he be obliged to take part against either, it will be against that which shall first pass the Rubicon of reconciliation with the other.
• It was in doing them that I at length crossed the bridge, an event as important to the child as the Rubicon to Caesar.
• But the Rubicon passed, our hero found that he had a pretty smart appetite, and did full justice to the viands set before him.
• But at last I brought him triumphantly across the Rubicon of the little stream, and marched him into camp under the astounded eyes of Cookie.
• It thus embraces the first forty-three lines of the law, and is concerned with the public land of Italy, from the Rubicon southwards.
• There he remained for nine days, as it were another Caesar about to cross the Rubicon.
• At the head of his devotedly loyal veterans he crossed the Rubicon.
• At last, in May, 1839, Gibbon Wakefield crossed the Rubicon.
• After all, he had crossed the Rubicon, and had been very well received on the other side.
• Chapter XVI The Rubicon I It was growing late, but the proconsul apparently was manifesting no impatience.
• Thus, after summoning courage, he laid hold of the box a third time, and the Rubicon was passed.

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