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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

Old English read.

[edit] Adjective

red (comparative redder, superlative reddest)

Positive
red

Comparative
redder

Superlative
reddest
  1. Having red as its colour.
    The girl wore a red skirt.
  2. Of hair, having an orange-brown colour; ginger.
    Her hair had red highlights.
  3. Leftwing, socialist or communist.
    • "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. [1]
  4. (US, modern) Supportive of or dominated by the Republican Party.
    a red state
    a red Congress
  5. (US, modern) Of or pertaining to the Republican Party.
    a red advertisement
  6. (British) Supportive of the Labour Party.
  7. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from "red"
[edit] Translations
having red as its colour
of hair: orange-brown
left-wing, socialist or communist
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  • Chinese:
Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng

[edit] Noun

Singular
red

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural reds

red (countable and uncountable; plural reds)

  1. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670nm, 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.
  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. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
    • 1971: The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack—Seconal and heroin—and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 202)
  5. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (British) a type of firecracker.
[edit] Derived terms
terms derived from "red"
[edit] See also
[edit] Translations
colour
socialist, communist

[edit] References

[edit] Etymology 2

From the archaic verb rede.

[edit] Verb

red

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

[edit] Etymology 3

From Old English hreddan (“‘to save, to deliver, recover, rescue’”) < Proto-Germanic *hradjan.

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to red

Third person singular
reds

Simple past
redded

Past participle
redded

Present participle
redding

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

  1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.

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[edit] Etymology 4

Middle English < Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden.

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to red

Third person singular
reds

Simple past
redded

Past participle
redded

Present participle
redding

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

  1. (transitive, Pennsylvania) Alternative spelling of redd.

[edit] References

  • “redd” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001

[edit] Danish

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  • IPA: /reːd/, [ʁæðˀ]

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red

  1. Past of ride.

[edit] Dutch

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red

  1. first-person singular present tense of redden
  2. singular imperative present tense of redden

[edit] Kurdish

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red

  1. To disappear.

[edit] Old English

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red

  1. Rule, power, decree.

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[edit] Polish

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[edit] Noun

red

  1. genitive plural of reda

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

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rȇd m. (Cyrillic spelling ре̑д)

  1. row
  2. (analysis) series
  3. queue
  4. order (of magnitude)
  5. order (arrangement, disposition)

[edit] Declension

    declension of red
singular plural
nominative rȇd rȅdovi
genitive reda redova
dative redu redovima
accusative red redove
vocative rede redovi
locative redu redovima
instrumental redom redovima

[edit] Slovene

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From Proto-Slavic *rędъ.

[edit] Noun

red m.

  1. order (arrangement, disposition)

[edit] Spanish

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Latin rete (“‘net’”)

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red f. (plural redes)

Singular
red f.

Plural
redes f.
  1. web, mesh
  2. trap, snare
  3. net, network
  4. (computing) Web, Internet

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[edit] Swedish

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red

  1. Imperative of reda.
  2. Preterite of rida.

[edit] Turkish

[edit] Noun

red

  1. refusal

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red (with the auxiliary verb etmek)

  1. To refuse.

[edit] Volapük

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English red

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[edit] Noun

red

  1. the colour red

[edit] Declension

    declension of red
singular plural
nominative red reds
accusative redi redis
genitive reda redas
dative rede redes

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