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Definition red

Etymology 1

From Middle English red, from Old English r?ad, 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 *h?rowd?ós, from the root *h?rewd?- (compare Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ??????? (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (rud?), Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Avestan ????????‎ (raoidita), Sanskrit ????? (rudhirá, “red, bloody”)).

Adjective

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

  1. Having red as its color.
  2. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
  3. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
  4. (often capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
    1. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party
    2. (also Britain) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
  5. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
  6. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  7. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
Noun

red (countable and uncountable, plural reds)

  1. (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.
  2. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
  3. (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
  4. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
  5. (countable, informal, Britain, birdwatching) A redshank.
  6. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind.
  7. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
  8. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
  9. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade
  10. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  11. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
  12. (informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.

Etymology 2

From the archaic verb rede.

Verb

red

  1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede

Etymology 3

Verb

red (third-person singular simple present reds, present participle redding, simple past and past participle redded)

  1. Alternative spelling of redd

Results 260 Words with the letters RED

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5 letter words with the letters RED 
CRUDE 10
CURED 10
CYDER 11
DECRY 11
DEMUR 10
DERBY 11
DIKER 10
DIVER 10
DOZER 15
DRAKE 10
DRAVE 10
DRECK 13
DREKS 10
DRIVE 10
DROVE 10
DRUPE 10
DUPER 10
FREMD 12
GYRED 10
IRKED 10
JERID 15
MURED 10
PERDU 10
PERDY 11
PRUDE 10
RAKED 10
RAVED 10
RAXED 13
RAZED 15
REDOX 13
REDUB 10
REDUX 14
RIVED 10
ROVED 10
RYKED 12
4 letter words with the letters RED 
BRED 8
CRED 8
DARE 5
DEAR 5
DEER 5
DERE 5
DERM 8
DIRE 5
DOER 5
DORE 5
DREE 5
DREG 7
DREK 9
DREW 8
DURE 6
DYER 7
HERD 7
IRED 5
NERD 6
READ 5
REDD 6
REDE 5
REDO 5
REDS 5
REED 5
REND 6
RIDE 5
RODE 5
RUDE 6
RUED 6
3 letter words with the letters RED 
RED 4
2 letter words with the letters RED 
DE 3
ED 3
ER 2
RE 2

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