Definitions of purple [ˈpɜr pəl]

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Definition of 'purple'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) purple
any color having components of both red and blue, esp. one deep in tone.

2.  purple
cloth or clothing of this hue, esp. as formerly worn distinctively by persons of royal or other high rank.

3.  purple
the office of a cardinal or bishop.

4.  purple
imperial, regal, or princely rank or position.

5. (adj.) purple
of the color purple.

6.  purple
imperial, regal, or princely.

7.  purple
brilliant or showy.

8.  purple
full of exaggerated literary devices and effects; marked by excessively ornate rhetoric:
purple prose.

9.  purple
profane or shocking, as language.

10. (v.i.) purple
to make or become purple.

Definition of 'purple'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) purple, purpleness
a purple color or pigment

2. (adj) purple
of imperial status
"he was born to the purple"

3. (adj) purple, violet, purplish
of a color intermediate between red and blue

4. (adj) empurpled, over-embellished, purple
excessively elaborate or showily expressed
"a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away"

5. (verb) imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal
belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
"golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"

6. (verb) purple
become purple

7. (verb) purple, empurple, purpurate
color purple

Definition of 'purple'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) purple
between red and blue in color
a purple sweater/flower; The sky turned purple.; a deep shade of purple

Definition of 'purple'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) purple
exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe

2. (adj) purple
imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority

3. (adj) purple
blood-red; bloody

4. (noun) purple
a color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue

5. (noun) purple
cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple

6. (noun) purple
hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth

7. (noun) purple
a cardinalate. See Cardinal

8. (noun) purple
any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula

9. (noun) purple
any shell of the genus Purpura

10. (noun) purple
see Purpura

11. (noun) purple
a disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle

12. (verb) purple
to make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood

Translation of 'purple'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (of) a dark colour made by mixing blue and red.
Afrikaans: pers	Arabic: أرْجُوان، أرْجُواني	Bulgarian: лилав
Brazilian: roxo	Czech: nach(ový)	German: purpurn
Danish: violet; purpur	Greek: μοβ	Spanish: púrpura, morado
Estonian: punakaslilla	Farsi: ارغوانی	Finnish: purppuranpunainen
French: violet	Hebrew: סֶגוֹל	Hindi: बैंगनी
Hungarian: bíbor(piros)	Indonesian: ungu	Icelandic: fjólublár, purpuralitur
Italian: porpora	Japanese: 紫色	Korean: 자줏빛
Lithuanian: purpurinė/violetinė spalv	Latvian: purpurs; purpursarkans	Malay: ungu
Dutch: purper	Norwegian: purpur, fiolett	Polish: fioletowy
Persian: ارغوانی	Pashto: ارغوانى	Portuguese: roxo
Romanian: violet	Russian: фиолетовый (цвет)	Slovak: purpur; purpurový
Slovenian: vijoličen	Serbian: ljubičast	Swedish: purpur, mörklila
Thai: สีม่วง	Turkish: mor	Taiwanese: 紫色(的)
Ukrainian: пурпурний колір	Urdu: ارغواني رنگ	Vietnamese: màu đỏ tía
Chinese: 紫色（的）
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