English
ochre
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈəʊkə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈoʊkɚ/
Noun

ochre

  1. An earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
  2. A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
     
  3. (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
  4. (slang) Money, especially gold.
    • 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times (novel), Chapter 6,
      ‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’
  5. Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
Translations Translations Adjective

ochre (not comparable)

  1. Having a yellow-orange colour.
  2. (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
Translations
  • French: ocre
  • German: ockern, ocker, ockerfarben
  • Portuguese: ocre
  • Russian: жёлто-оранжевый
  • Spanish: ocre
Verb

ochre (ochres, present participle ochring; past and past participle ochred)

  1. To cover or tint with ochre.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia (novel), New York: Appleton, 1943, Chapter 14, p. 229,
      […] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.
Noun

ochre

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of okra#English|okra.


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