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Red   /rɛd/   Listen
Red

adjective
(compar. redder; superl. reddest)
1.
Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies.  Synonyms: blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, reddish, ruby, ruby-red, ruddy, scarlet.
2.
Characterized by violence or bloodshed.  Synonyms: crimson, violent.  "Fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing" , "Convulsed with red rage"
3.
(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion.  Synonyms: crimson, flushed, red-faced, reddened.  "Turned red from exertion" , "With puffy reddened eyes" , "Red-faced and violent" , "Flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment"
noun
1.
Red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood.  Synonym: redness.
2.
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana.  Synonym: Red River.
3.
Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries.  Synonyms: Bolshevik, bolshie, bolshy, Marxist.
4.
The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue.  Synonyms: loss, red ink.  "The company operated in the red last year"  Antonym: gain.



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"Red" Quotes from Famous Books



... the working-room's equipment is seen in the pieces of carpet of various colors—red, blue, pink, green and brown. The children spread these rugs upon the floor, sit upon them and work there with the didactic material. A room of this kind is larger than the customary class-rooms, not only because the little ...
— Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook • Maria Montessori

... to it. Indeed, there was a notice at the railway bookstall on the day he left, to the effect that the first edition was exhausted, and that a large second edition would be available almost immediately. 'Place your orders at once' was added in bold red letters. Rogers bought one of these placards ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood

... was Miss Minnie Fay, sister to Mrs. Willoughby, and utterly unlike her in every respect. Minnie was a blonde, with blue eyes, golden hair cut short and clustering about her little head, little bit of a mouth, with very red, plump lips, and very white teeth. Minnie was very small, and very elegant in shape, in gesture, in dress, in every attitude and every movement. The most striking thing about her, however, was the expression of her eyes and her face. There was about her brow the ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille

... coat and waistcoat had been torn away, and slipped down to some extent. His shirt-collar had burst and slipped with them. As Despard turned him over and proceeded to tie him, something struck his eye. It was a bright, red scar. ...
— Cord and Creese • James de Mille

... keep his family in modest comfort, had he but kept away from taverns. For a few years his life of alternate toil and dissipation was occasionally illumined by his splendid lyric genius, and he produced many songs—"Bonnie Doon," "My Love's like a Red, Red Rose," "Auld Lang Syne," "Highland Mary," and the soul-stirring "Scots wha hae," composed while galloping over the moor in a storm—which have made the name of Burns known wherever the English language is ...
— English Literature - Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World • William J. Long


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