red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĕd
ipa: /ɹɛd/
ipa: [ɻʷɛˑd̥]
homophone: read stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɛd
Forms: form: redder
form: reddest
Etymology: From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from the root *h₁rewdʰ-.
Cognates
See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).
Senses: examples: text: The girl wore a red skirt.
text: He was wearing a red jacket.
text: Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
ref: 1954 July 29, J.R.R. Tolkien, “I: A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings; 1), →ISBN:
glosses: Of a red hue.
examples: text: Her hair had red highlights.
glosses: Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
raw_tags: of hair
examples: text: [T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them.
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23:
glosses: Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
raw_tags: of the skin
glosses: Having a brown color.
raw_tags: of a dog or its coat
examples: text: I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
raw_tags: of a card
examples: text: "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
text: the red-black grand coalition in Germany
topics: government
politics
glosses: 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.
examples: text: a red state
text: a red Congress
topics: government
politics
glosses: Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
The U.S. Republican Party.
examples: text: All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red
ref: 1994, Soundgarden, Spoonman:
glosses: Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of a red color charge.
Synonyms: topics: color
word: scarlet
topics: color
word: crimson
topics: color
word: vermilion
topics: color
word: ruby-red
topics: color
word: cherry-red
topics: color
word: cerise
topics: color
word: cardinal-red
topics: color
word: carmine
topics: color
word: wine-red
topics: color
word: claret-red
topics: color
alt: sanguine
word: blood-red
topics: color
word: coral-red
topics: color
word: cochineal-red
topics: color
english: rosy, damask
translation: rosy, damask
word: rose-red
topics: color
word: brick-red
topics: color
word: maroon
topics: color
english: rusty
translation: rusty
word: rust-red
topics: color
word: rufous-red
topics: color
word: gules-red
topics: color
word: rufescent
Derived terms: word: Adrianople red
word: alizarin red
word: anti-red
word: apple red
word: arctic red jellyfish
word: arrest-me-red
word: ash-red
word: barn red
word: beetroot red
word: better dead than red
word: big red button
word: big red switch
word: bleed red ink
word: blood-red
word: blood-red fancy
word: blue-red
word: brick-red
word: cadmium red
word: Cambodian red
word: Canadian red pine
word: cardinal red
word: carmine red
word: carthamus red
word: catch red-handed
word: cherry-red
word: Christmas Island red crab
word: code red
word: Cuban red macaw
word: cut red tape
word: dago red
word: dark red
word: dead-red
word: eastern red cedar
word: Ezo red fox
word: Falun red
word: Falu red
word: French red
word: Great Red Dragon
word: Great Red Spot
word: grey red-backed vole
word: Harlan's red-tailed hawk
word: Harrison red
word: Himalayan red bear
word: indigo red
word: infra-red
word: Irish red ale
word: kino red
word: little red dot
word: Little Red Riding Hood
word: Magdala red
word: Miss Waldron's red colobus
word: Moroccan red
word: Morocco red
word: Mount Graham red squirrel
word: Murray red gum
word: Nantucket red
word: naphthalene red
word: Nile red
word: northern red-backed vole
word: northern red oak
word: Old Red Sandstone
word: paint the town red
word: paranitraniline red
word: para red
word: Parliamentary red
word: picrosirius red
word: Prussian red
word: put on the red light
word: Quebec red trout
word: quinova red
word: ragged red fibers
word: raise red flags
word: ratanhia red
word: red admirable
word: red admiral
word: red alder
word: red ale
word: red alert
word: red alga
word: red-and-green macaw
word: red and silver dewdrop
word: red ant
word: red antimony
word: red ape
word: red apple
word: Red Army
word: red arrow
word: red as a beetroot
word: red as a lobster
word: red ash
word: red-assed
word: red avadavat
word: red-backed fairywren
word: red-backed hawk
word: red-backed sea eagle
word: red-backed shrike
word: red-back
word: redback
word: red back
word: red bag
word: red bag delivery
word: red-bait
word: red-baiter
word: red-baiting
word: red ball
word: red banana
word: red band
word: red-banded sand wasp
word: red bandfish
word: Red Bank
word: red banner
english: tree
translation: tree
word: red bay
alt: toponym
word: Red Bay
word: red bayberry
word: Red Beach
word: red bean
word: red bean porridge
word: red beet
word: red-bellied black snake
word: red-bellied piranha
word: red-bellied titi
word: red-bellied woodpecker
word: red biddy
word: red-billed
word: red-billed gull
word: red-billed leiothrix
word: red-billed woodcreeper
word: red birch
word: red-bird
word: redbird
word: red-black tree
word: red-blood
word: red blood cell
word: red blood cell cast
word: red-blooded
word: red-bloodedness
word: Red Bluff
word: red book
word: red bourgeoisie
word: red box
word: red brass
word: red-breasted flycatcher
word: red-breasted goose
word: red-breasted merganser
word: red-breasted sapsucker
word: red-brick
word: redbrick
word: red brick university
word: Red Brigades
word: red-browed finch
word: red-brown
word: red brush
word: redbud
word: redbug
word: red building paper
word: Red Bull
word: red button
word: red cabbage
word: red campion
word: red cap
word: red-capped
word: red-capped parrot
word: red car
word: red cardinal
word: red cardinal flower
word: red card
word: red-card
word: red-carpetful
word: red carpet
word: red-carpet
word: Redcastle
word: red caviar
word: red cedar
word: red cell
word: red cent
word: red chalk
word: red chamber
word: red-chested cuckoo
word: red chickweed
word: Red China
word: red chip
word: red chokeberry
word: red circle rate
word: Red Cloud
word: red clover
word: red clump
word: Red Clydeside
word: red coat
word: redcoat
word: red-cockaded woodpecker
word: red codling
word: red-collared lorikeet
word: red-collared widowbird
word: red colobus
word: red-cook
word: red copper
word: red coral
word: red corpuscle
word: red cotton-tree
word: red cotton tree
word: Red Crescent
word: red-crested pochard
word: Red Cross
word: red crossbill
word: red crowberry
word: red-crowned crane
word: red cunt hair
word: red currant
word: red-currant
word: Red Current
word: red cypress
word: red daikon
word: red day
word: red dead man's fingers
word: red dead-nettle
word: red deer
word: red delicious
word: redden
word: red detuning
word: red-diaper
word: red diaper baby
word: red-diaper baby
word: red diesel
word: reddish
word: red dog
word: Red Dot
word: red drum
word: red dwarf
word: red-eared slider
word: red-eared terrapin
word: red-eared turtle
word: red ear syndrome
word: red earth
word: red egg
word: red elm
word: red ensign
word: red envelope
word: Red Eye
word: red-eyed
word: red-eye gravy
word: red eye
word: red-eye
word: redeye
word: red-faced
word: red-faced cormorant
word: red face test
word: red factor canary
word: red-fan parrot
word: red fascism
word: red fascist
word: red fescue
word: red fever
word: red figure
word: red-finned shark
word: red-fin shark
word: red fir
word: red fire
word: redfish
word: red-flag
word: red flag day
word: red-flaggy
word: red flag in front of a bull
word: red flag knowledge
word: red flag law
word: red flag
word: Red Flag
word: red flag to a bull
word: red flag warning
word: Red Flames
word: red-flanked bluetail
word: red flour beetle
word: red flower
word: red flying squid
word: red-footed falcon
word: red-footed tortoise
word: red force
word: red forest
word: red fox
word: red-fronted coot
word: red-fronted tinkerbird
word: red fuming nitric acid
word: red garra
word: red-gartered coot
word: red geyser
word: red giant
word: red ginger
word: red gold
word: red goods
word: red grape
word: red-green-brown alliance
word: red-green
word: red green
word: red grouse
word: Red Guard
word: red guard
word: red gum
word: red-gum
word: red gurnard
word: red hair
word: red hake
word: red-handed
word: red-handedly
word: red-handedness
word: red hat
word: Red Hawke
word: redhead
word: red-headed Eskimo
word: red-headed honeyeater
word: red-headed
word: redheaded
word: red-headed stepchild
word: red-headed vulture
word: red-headed woodpecker
word: red heat
word: red Helen
word: red herring
word: red herring prospectus
word: Red Hill
word: red hind
word: red hornweed
word: red horse
word: redhorse
word: red-hot minute
word: red-hot poker
word: red-hot
word: red hot
word: red huckleberry
word: red-humped caterpillar
word: red hydrogen
word: red imported fire ant
word: red ink
word: red-inker
word: red in the face
word: red in tooth and claw
word: red ivory
word: red jackal
word: red jade
word: red judge
word: red junglefowl
word: red juniper
word: red kangaroo
word: Red Ken
word: red king crab
word: red kite
word: red-knobbed coot
word: red knot
word: red kuri squash
word: Red Lake County
word: Red Lake Falls
word: red lane
word: red lead
word: red leaf
word: red Leb
word: red-legged cormorant
word: red-legged golden orb-weaver spider
taxonomic: Melanoplus femurrubrum
word: red-legged grasshopper
word: red-legged partridge
word: red-legged tinamou
word: red-leg
word: red leg
word: Red Leicester
word: red letter
word: red-letter
word: red letter date
word: red-letter day
word: red letter day
word: red-letter edition
word: red letter law
word: red licorice
word: red light
word: red-light camera
word: red light camera
word: red-light district
word: red light district
word: red line
word: Red Liner
word: red-line torpedo barb
word: red link
word: red-linked
word: red lion
word: red-lipped batfish
word: red liquor
word: red liquorice
word: Red List
word: red lives matter
word: Red Lodge
word: red lynx
word: red-maids
word: red maids
word: red mammee
word: red mamey
word: red man
word: red manganese
word: red manganese oxide
word: red mange
word: red man syndrome
taxonomic: Acer rubrum
word: red maple
word: red marrow
word: red martyrdom
word: Red Mass
word: red mead
word: red measles
word: red meat
word: red meat radish
word: Red Mediterranean
word: red menace
word: red mercury
word: red mirage
word: red mist
taxonomic: Dermanyssus gallinae
word: red mite
word: red moki
word: red mongo
word: red monkey
word: red mud
word: red mulberry
word: red mulga
word: red mullet
word: red-necked buzzard
word: red-necked francolin
word: red-necked grebe
word: red-necked phalarope
word: red-necked stint
word: red-necked wallaby
word: red-necked woodpecker
word: red neck syndrome
word: red Ned
word: red neuralgia
word: red-nigger
word: red nigger
word: red nightshade
word: red noise
word: red-nose tetra
word: red notice
word: red nucleus
word: red nugget
word: red nugget galaxy
alt: toponym
word: Red Oak
word: red oak
word: red oak tree
word: red ocher
word: red ochre
word: red onion
word: red orpiment
word: red osier
word: red osier dogwood
word: red owl
word: red oxide
word: red oxygen
word: red packet
word: red panda
word: red pea
word: red-pencil
word: red penny
word: red pepper
word: red phalarope
word: red phosphorus
word: red pill
word: red pilled
word: red piller
word: red pine
word: red pipe
word: red piranha
word: red plague
word: red planet
word: red point
word: red-point
word: Red Poll
taxonomic: Acanthis spp.
word: redpoll
word: red poppy
word: red porgy
word: red precipitate
word: red princess flower
taxonomic: Sanguinaria canadensis
word: red puccoon
word: red pudding
word: red pulp
word: red pumpkin bug
word: red pussy hair
word: red rag
word: red-ragger
word: red rag to a bull
word: red rail
word: red raspberry
word: red rattle
word: red rattler
word: red-red stew
word: red ribbon
word: red rice
word: red rider
word: red-rimmed
word: red ring
word: red ring disease
word: red ring of death
word: red ring skirt
word: red river hog
word: Red Rock
word: red rock crab
word: red rocket
word: red room
word: redroot
word: Red Rose of Lancaster
word: Red Roses
word: red rosin paper
word: red rot
word: red route
word: red-rumped parrot
word: red-rumped swallow
word: Red Russian kale
word: red sage
word: red salmon
word: red sanders
word: red sauce
word: Red Scar
word: red scare
word: red scarf
word: red sea
word: Red Sea
word: Red Sea Hills
word: red seaperch
word: red seaweed
word: red seaweed isopod
word: red setter
word: red-shafted flicker
word: red shale
word: red-shanked douc
word: redshank
word: red shank
word: red shift
word: red shirt
word: red-shirt
word: red-short
word: red-shortness
word: red-shouldered hawk
word: red silky oak
word: red silver
word: red siskin
word: red slaw
word: red slender loris
word: red snake
word: red snapper
word: red snow
word: red sorrel
word: red spider
word: red spider lily
word: red spider mite
word: red spiral
word: red spiral galaxy
word: Red Spot
word: redspotted
word: red-spotted purple
word: red sprite
word: red spruce
word: red spurge
word: red squad
word: Red Square
word: red squid
taxonomic: Drimia maritima
word: red squill
word: red squirrel
word: Red Star
word: red-start
word: red state
word: red steenbras
word: red strawberry tongue
word: Red Stream
word: red string of fate
word: reds under the bed
word: red sunflower
word: red supergiant
word: red swampdragon
word: red tag
word: red-tagging
word: red tail disease
word: red-tailed black cockatoo
word: red-tailed black shark
word: red-tailed hawk
word: red-tailed phascogale
word: red tailed shark
word: red-tailed shrike
word: red-tailed squirrel
word: red-tailed tropicbird
word: red tanager
word: red tape
word: red-tapeism
word: red-tapism
word: red-tapist
word: red tea
word: red teamer
word: red-team
word: red team
word: red tegu
word: red terror
word: red-throat
word: red-throated diver
word: red-throated loon
word: red-throated pipit
word: red-throated thrush
word: red-throated tit
word: red tide
word: red tiger
word: red time
word: red toad trillium
word: red-toothed
word: red-toothed shrew
word: red-top
word: red top
word: redtop
word: red-to-red
word: red tortoise cake
word: red triangle slug
word: red trillium
word: red turtle dove
word: red 'un
word: red under the bed
word: red-up
word: red up
word: red valerian
word: red-veined
word: red-veined darter
word: red-veined dock
word: red velvet
word: red velvet cake
word: red-velvet cake
word: red velvet mite
word: red vet pet
word: Red Vienna
word: red vitriol
word: Red Volta
word: red wall
word: red wasp
word: red water
word: red wattlebird
word: red wave
word: red wedding
word: red week
word: Red Wharf Bay
taxonomic: Vaccinium vitis-idaea
word: red whortleberry
word: red wiggler
word: Red Willow County
word: Red Willow Creek
word: red wine headache
word: Red Wing
word: red-winged blackbird
word: red-winged fairywren
word: red-winged parrot
word: red-winged tinamou
word: redwing
word: red-wing
word: red wings
word: red wolf
word: red won
word: redwood
taxonomic: Lumbricina spp.
word: red worm
word: red yeast rice
word: red zone
word: red-zone
word: river red gum
word: roll out the red carpet
word: rose red
word: rosy-red
word: rosy-red minnow
word: royal red prawn
word: ruby-red
word: ruby red
word: run a red light
word: ruthenium red
word: scared red
word: scarlet red
word: Shasta red fir
word: sit dead-red
word: spaghetti red
word: Spanish red
word: spot-red
word: straight red
word: straight red card
word: take the red eye
word: take the red pill
word: tile red
word: turn a number of shades of red
word: turn on red
word: unexpected red theory
word: violet red bile agar
word: we all bleed red
word: western red lily
word: worm red
word: yellow-red
Related terms: primary colour