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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 Bokm�l r�d, Norwegian Nynorsk raud), from Proto-Indo-European *h?rowd?�s, from the root *h?rewd?- (compare Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rt�r, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ??????? (eruthr�s), Albanian pruth (�redhead�), Old Church Slavonic ???? (rud?), Czech rud�, Lithuanian ra�das, Avestan ????????‎ (raoidita), Sanskrit ????? (rudhir�, �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

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