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 Definitions of 'purple':

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


2. (noun) 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. (adj) 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



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