# Ragusa

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #96,391

## Definitions
1. A province of Sicily, Italy.
2. The capital of Ragusa, Italy.
3. Former name of Dubrovnik: a city and port in southern Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea.
4. The Republic of Ragusa, a maritime republic centered in Dubrovnik.
5. A habitational surname from Italian.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Ragusa, from Latin Ragusia. Probably from Proto-Albanian *rāguša (“grape”) (modern Albanian rrush)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ragusa