red
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: rĕd, IPA(key): /ɹɛd/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: read (past tense/participle)
- Rhymes: -ɛd
Etymology 1
From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz (compare West Frisian read, Low German root, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ- (compare Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Old Church Slavonic рудъ (rudŭ), Lithuanian raúdas, Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”)).
Adjective
red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)
- Having red as its color.
- The girl wore a red skirt.
- Shakespeare
- Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
- (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- Her hair had red highlights.
- (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
- I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
- (often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
- (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party
- a red state
- a red Congress
- (also Britain) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- "Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixon’s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tung’s regime. Nixon’s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldn’t get away with.
- the red-black grand coalition in Germany
- (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party
- (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
- (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
- (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- ash-red
- better dead than red
- brick-red
- go red
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Old Red Sandstone
- ragged red fibers
- red admiral
- red alert
- red algae
- red ant
- Red Army
- red as a beetroot
- redback
- red-backed shrike
- red-baiting
- red bay
- red-bellied black snake
- red biddy
- redbird
- red blood cell
- red-blooded
- Red Bluff
- Red Brigades
- redbud
- redbug
- red cabbage
- red card
- red carpet
- red cedar
- red cell
- red cent
- red chamber
- Red China
- red circle rate
- red clover
- red Clydeside
- redcoat
- red coral
- red corpuscle
- Red Crescent
- Red Cross
- red currant
- redden
- red-diaper baby
- red diaper baby
- red diesel
- reddish
- red drum
- red earth
- red ensign
- redeye
- red-faced
- red fescue
- red fire
- redfish
- red flag, Red Flag
- red fox
- red giant
- red goods
- red-green coalition
- Red Guard
- red gum
- red-handed
- red hat
- redhead
- redheaded
- red heat
- red herring
- redhorse
- red-hot
- red-hot poker
- red ink
- red kangaroo
- Red Ken
- Red Lake County
- Red Lake Falls
- red lead
- red leaf
- red leg
- red-legged grasshopper
- Red Leicester
- red-letter day
- red light
- red-light district
- Red List
- Red Lodge
- red maple
- red marrow
- red mass
- red meat
- red menace
- red mercury
- red mist
- red mite
- red mulberry
- red mullet
- red oak
- red ocher
- red osier
- red packet
- red panda
- red-pencil
- red pepper
- red pine
- red planet
- red-point
- Red Poll
- redpoll (Acanthis spp.)
- red puccoon
- red rag
- red rattle
- red ribbon
- redroot
- red route
- red scare
- Red Sea
- red setter
- red shank
- redshank
- red shift
- red-shouldered hawk
- red siskin
- red snapper
- red snow
- red spider
- Red Spot
- red spruce
- Red Square
- red squill
- red squirrel
- red state
- red steenbras
- reds under the bed
- red tape
- red tide
- redtop
- red-top
- red valerian
- Red Vienna
- red water
- red whortleberry
- Red Willow County
- Red Willow Creek
- redwing
- Red Wing
- red-winged blackbird
- red wolf
- redwood
- red worm
- river red gum
- western red cedar
Translations
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Noun
red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)
- (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
- red colour:
- (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
- 1977, Billy Joel (music), “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant”, in The Stranger:
- A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant.
- 2005, Jeffrey P. Landry, Temptation Mango:
- He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red.
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- (countable, informal, Britain, birdwatching) A redshank.
- (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
- (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 202:
- The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack—Seconal and heroin—and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers.
- 1971, Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005), page 202:
- (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
- (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade
- (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
- (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
- 1982, The Rotarian (volume 140, number 1, page 39)
- Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […]
- 1982, The Rotarian (volume 140, number 1, page 39)
- (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.
Derived terms
Translations
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See also
Colors in English · colors, colours (layout · text) | ||||
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white | gray, grey | black | ||
red ; crimson | orange ; brown | yellow ; cream | ||
lime | green | mint | ||
cyan ; teal | azure, sky blue | blue | ||
violet ; indigo | magenta ; purple | pink |
- (reds) red; blood red, brick red, burgundy, cardinal, carmine, carnation, cerise, cherry, cherry red, Chinese red, cinnabar, claret, crimson, damask, fire brick, fire engine red, flame, flamingo, fuchsia, garnet, geranium, gules, hot pink, incarnadine, Indian red, magenta, maroon, misty rose, nacarat, oxblood, pillar-box red, pink, Pompeian red, poppy, raspberry, red violet, rose, rouge, ruby, ruddy, salmon, sanguine, scarlet, shocking pink, stammel, strawberry, Turkey red, Venetian red, vermillion, vinaceous, vinous, violet red, wine (Category: en:Reds)
- primary colour
References
Etymology 2
From the archaic verb rede.
Verb
red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)
- Alternative spelling of redd
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt
- IPA(key): /rɛt/
Kurdish
Italian
Noun
red
- A type of rice.
Manx
Noun
red m (genitive singular red, plural reddyn)
- thing, object, item
- Cha daink reddyn dy mie.
- Things didn't pan out well.
- Cha nel shen deyr son y leagh t'er reddyn nish.
- That's not dear as things go.
- Kanys ta reddyn goll er?
- How are things?
- Son y chied red, t'eh ro vie dy ve firrinagh.
- For one thing, it is too good to be true.
- Ta reddyn couyral.
- Things are getting better.
- Ta reddyn ennagh ayn nagh vel niart ain orroo.
- There are some things we cannot help.
- Ta shen red aitt.
- That's a curious thing.
- T'eh yn un red.
- It amounts to the same thing.
- T'eh çheet stiagh rish yn red elley.
- It falls in with the other thing.
- She'n red hene eh y traa shoh.
- It's the real thing this time.
- Va shen yn red cooie dy ghra.
- That was the appropriate thing to say.
- matter
Middle English
Etymology
Old English rēad, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rɛːd/, /reːd/
Adjective
References
- “rēd (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Noun
red
Related terms
References
- “rēd (n.(2))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Old English
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /rêːd/
Noun
rȇd m (Cyrillic spelling ре̑д)
Declension
Slovene
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈréːt/
- Tonal orthography: rẹ̑d
Declension
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈréːt/
- Tonal orthography: rẹ̑d
Spanish
Etymology
From Old Spanish red, from Latin rēte (“net”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈred/, [ˈreð]
- Rhymes: -eð
Noun
red f (plural redes)
- (hunting, tools) web, mesh
- (fishing) net
- 1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Cartago a Sagunto : 13
- Si se consigue pescar a Dorregaray con cuarenta mil duretes, a Cástor Andéchaga con veinticinco mil, y a otros tales, habremos hecho más que cogiendo en la red a los bicharracos de menor cuantía.
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- 1911, Benito Pérez Galdós, De Cartago a Sagunto : 13
- (arachnid) spiderweb
- trap, snare
- (communication, transport) net, network
- red de carreteras, highway network
- red de radiodifusoras, radio broadcasters network
- red televisiva, TV broadcasting network
- (sports) net, goal
- (computing) Web, Internet
- (used in plural) social networks