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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Adjective 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Noun 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2.2 See also 1.2.2.3 Translations 1.2.3 References 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.2 References 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Verb 1.5.2 References 2 Bosnian 2.1 Noun 3 Croatian 3.1 Noun 4 Danish 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Verb 5 Dutch 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Verb form 6 Kurdish 6.1 Verb 7 Polish 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Noun 8 Serbian 8.1 Noun 9 Slovene 9.1 Noun 10 Spanish 10.1 Etymology 10.2 Noun 10.2.1 Related terms 11 Swedish 11.1 Verb 12 Turkish 12.1 Noun 12.2 Verb 13 Volapük 13.1 Etymology 13.2 Pronunciation 13.3 Noun 13.3.1 Derived terms 13.4 See also

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕd, IPA: /ɹɛd/, SAMPA: /rEd/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}
• Homophones: read (past tense/participle).

[edit] Etymology 1

Old English read.

[edit] Adjective

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.

   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

[edit] Translations

• Chinese:

Mandarin: 紅, 红 (hóng)

Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng

• Interlingua: rubie, rubre, rubide (dark)

[edit] Noun

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
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. (British) a type of firecracker.

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[edit] See also

carmine crimson primary colour

ruby ruddy Rudolf

scarlet vermilion Appendix:Colours

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• “red” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
• red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[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

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

1. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of redd.

[edit] References

• “redd” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
• red in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] Etymology 4

Middle English < Middle Low German, compare Dutch redden.

[edit] Verb

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

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[edit] Bosnian

[edit] Noun

red m (plural redovi)

1. row

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[edit] Croatian

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red

1. row
2. (analysis) series

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /reːd/, [ʁæðˀ]

[edit] Verb

red

1. Past of ride.

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /rɛd/

[edit] Verb form

red

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

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[edit] Kurdish

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red

1. To disappear.

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[edit] Polish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [rɛt]

[edit] Noun

red

1. genitive plural of reda

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[edit] Serbian

[edit] Noun

red m. (plural redovi) (Cyrillic spelling ред)

1. row

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[edit] Slovene

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red m.

1. order (arrangement, disposition)

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[edit] Etymology

Latin rete (“‘net’”)

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red f. (plural redes)

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

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• enredar
• enredo
• redada
• redecilla
• reticular
• retina

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Verb

red

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

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[edit] Turkish

[edit] Noun

red

1. refusal

[edit] Verb

red (with the auxiliary verb etmek)

1. To refuse.

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[edit] Volapük

[edit] Etymology

English red

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /red/

[edit] Noun

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	red	reds
Accusative	redi	redis
Genitive	reda	redas
Dative	rede	redes

1. the colour red

[edit] Derived terms

• redik

[edit] See also

• blöv
• grün