Rubble vs Ruins - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between rubble and ruins

is that rubble is the broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry while ruins is plural of lang=en.

third-person singular of ruin.

The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.

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(geology) A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.

(Lyell)

(UK, dialect, in the plural) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

(Simmonds)

* reduce to rubble * rubblestone * rubblework

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