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Definitions 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


Definitions 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


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