red
Pronunciation: /ɹɛd/
The English word “red” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
- A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- Red wine.
- Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
- A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
- A redshank.
- An American Indian.
- The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- A red light (a traffic signal)
- Red lemonade
- One of the three color charges for quarks.
- Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").
- The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
- Tomato ketchup.
- A red dye or pigment.
- A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of red pigment.
- Something, or a part of a thing, which is red.
adjective
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ- + *-ós. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud, Swedish röd, Faroese reyður, Icelandic rauður; also Welsh rhudd,…
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