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Definition: Meaning of, red in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / rɛd /

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red redder reddest
  1. colour having the colour of blood
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  2. hair hair that is red has an orange-brown colour
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  3. face if you go red, your face becomes a bright pink colour, especially because you are embarrassed or angry
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  4. wine red wine is a red or purple colour [↪  white]
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  5. like a red rag to a bull British English also like waving a red flag in front of a bull American English very likely to make someone angry or upset
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  6. roll out the red carpet/give somebody the red carpet treatment to give special treatment to an important visitor
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  7. not one red cent American English informal used to emphasize that you mean no money at all
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  8. politics informal COMMUNIST or extremely LEFT-WING political views - used to show disapproval
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red reds
  1. [uncountable and countable] the colour of blood
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  2. [uncountable and countable] red wine [↪  white]
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  3. be in the red informal to owe more money than you have [↪  overdrawn]
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  4. [countable] informal someone who has COMMUNIST or very LEFT-WING political opinions - used especially in the past to show disapproval
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Red


Definition: Meaning of, Red in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / rɛd /

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  1. a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana
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Red used in phrases

  • American red elder (noun)
    1. common North American shrub or small tree
  • American red plum (noun)
    1. wild plum trees of eastern and central North America having red-orange fruit with yellow flesh
  • American red squirrel (noun)
    1. of northern United States and Canada
  • Canadian red pine (noun)
    1. pine of eastern North America having long needles in bunches of two and reddish bark
  • Chinese-red (adjective)
    1. of a vivid red to reddish-orange colour
  • Eric the Red
    1. (950?-1001?) a Norwegian sailor who discovered Greenland in about 981
  • European red elder (noun)
    1. eurasian shrub
  • Indian red (noun)
    1. a reddish-brown colour resembling the red soil used as body paint by American Indians
    2. a red soil containing ferric oxide; often used as a pigment
  • Japanese Red Army (noun)
    1. a terrorist group organized in 1970 to overthrow the Japanese government and monarchy and to foment world revolution; is said to have close ties with Palestinian terrorists
  • Japanese red pine (noun)
    1. pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature; grown as an ornamental
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