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Definition of 'red'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) red
any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nm.

2.  red
something red.

3.  red
(often cap.) a radical leftist in politics, esp. a communist.

4.  red
Informal. red wine.

5.  red
Slang. a red capsule containing secobarbital.

6. (adj.) red
of the color red.

7.  red
having distinctive areas or markings of red:
a red robin.

8.  red
of or indicating a state of financial loss or indebtedness:
the red column in the ledger.

9.  red
politically radical or leftist.

10.  red
(often cap.) communist.

Definition of 'red'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) red, redness
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

2. (noun) Red, Red River
a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

3. (noun) Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, bolshy
emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

4. (adj) loss, red ink, red
the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue
"the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year"

5. (adj) red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

6. (adj) crimson, red, violent
characterized by violence or bloodshed
"writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode

7. (adj) crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion
"crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"

Definition of 'red'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (adjective) red
having the color of blood
a red apple

2.  red
turn red
(of sb's face) to become red because of embarrassment
He turned red and looked away.

3.  red
(of hair) having an orange-red color
her beautiful long red hair

4.  red
(of wine) being a purple-red color
a full-flavored red wine

5. (noun) red
the color of blood
a house painted a bright red

6.  red
a red wine
a light-tasting red

Definition of 'red'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) red
the menses

2. (noun) red
the color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these

3. (noun) red
a red pigment

4. (noun) red
an abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a

5. red
. imp. & p. p. of Read

6. red
of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part

7. (verb) red
to put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house

Translation of 'red'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (of) the colour of blood a red car/dress / cheeks; red cheeks; a red car/dress / cheeks; Her eyes were red with crying.
Afrikaans: rooi	Arabic: أحْمَر	Bulgarian: червен
Brazilian: vermelho	Czech: červený	German: rot
Danish: rød	Greek: κόκκινος	Spanish: rojo
Estonian: punane	Farsi: قرمز	Finnish: punainen
French: rouge	Hebrew: אָדוֹם	Hindi: लाल
Croatian: crven, krvav	Hungarian: piros	Indonesian: merah
Icelandic: rauður	Italian: rosso	Japanese: 赤
Korean: 붉은	Lithuanian: raudonas	Latvian: sarkana krāsa; sarkans
Malay: warna darah	Dutch: rood	Norwegian: rød
Polish: czerwień, czerwony	Persian: قرمز	Pashto: سور
Portuguese: vermelho	Romanian: roşu	Russian: красный (цвет)
Slovak: červený	Slovenian: rdeč	Serbian: crven
Swedish: rött, röd	Thai: สีแดง	Turkish: kırmızı
Taiwanese: 紅色的	Ukrainian: червоний	Urdu: سرخ
Vietnamese: màu đỏ	Chinese: 红色的
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