n. 1
A solid object in the shape of a circle. A circumscribing object, (roughly) circular and hollow, looking like an annual ring, earring, finger ring etc.
n. 2
A solid object in the shape of a circle. A round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger or through the ear, nose, etc.
His brother gifted him a ring for the engagement.
v. 1
To enclose or surround.
The inner city was ringed with dingy industrial areas.
v. 2
To make an incision around; to girdle; to cut away a circular tract of bark from a tree in order to kill it.
They ringed the trees to make the clearing easier next year.

Related words

Word family: ringdove ringed ringlet ringlike ring-lock ring-man ringsail ring-shaped
Phrases: ring finger ring up anchor ring fairy ring life ring ring road abdominal ring belly ring
Is a kind of: rng semiring

Forms

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: set¹, mob¹, pac¹, rng
4 letters: call¹, band¹, pack¹, bell¹, gang¹, toll¹, echo², halo², tore¹, ding¹, hoop¹, peal¹
5 letters: party², phone¹, sound¹, arena³, skirt¹, verge¹, donut², chime¹, cabal², knell¹, clang¹, junto
6 letters: league¹, border², circle², burner², jingle², clique¹, tinkle²
7 letters: faction², coterie³, annulus, environ, grommet
8 letters: surround², encircle³
9 letters: telephone³, enclosure³
11 letters: combination⁴, confederacy⁵, reverberate⁴
13 letters: reverberation⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (echo² = 2 syllables).