Pronunciation Adjective
red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)
- Having red as its color.
- The girl wore a red skirt.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:
- 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:
- 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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20061114093022/http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no16/vo14no16_dragon.htm]
- the red-black grand coalition in Germany
- (US, 21st century) the U.S. Republican party
- a red state
- a red Congress
- Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
- (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.
- (color): scarlet, crimson, vermilion, ruby-red, cherry-red, cerise, cardinal-red, carmine, wine-red, claret-red, blood-red (sanguine), coral-red, cochineal-red, rose-red (rosy, damask), brick-red, maroon, rust-red (rusty), rufous-red, gules-red, rufescent.
red
- (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.
- (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.
- (countable, informal, UK, 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, UK, 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.
- French: rouge
- German: Rot
- Italian: rosso
- Portuguese: vermelho, rubro, vermelha, rubra, encarnado, escarlate
- Russian: кра́сный
- Spanish: rojo
- Portuguese: vinho tinto
- Spanish: vino tinto
- (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of rede
red (reds, present participle redding; past and past participle redded)
- Alternative spelling of redd
Red
Noun
red (plural reds)
- A Communist.
- 1963 December 18, Chinatown News, page 12 ↗
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- 1963 December 18, Chinatown News, page 12 ↗
- A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit.
- A nickname given to someone who has or had red hair.
- Communist
- the Red Army
RED
Noun
red (uncountable)
- Acronym of reverse electrodialysis
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