ring finger
nounEtymology From Middle English ring fynger. So named from the wearing of wedding rings on this finger, originating from medieval belief that a nerve or artery ran from it to the heart.
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The finger between the middle finger and the little finger; the "third finger" (UK) or the "fourth finger" (US), especially of the left hand. (The ring finger is the left hand; a ring finger is either hand.)
- See Thesaurus:ring finger
- Synonyms
- fourth finger, gold-finger, leech-finger, marriage finger, medical finger, medicinal finger, nameless finger, physic finger, physical finger, physician finger, ring finger, ring-man, third finger
- Hypernyms
- finger