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[ English

[ Pronunciation

[ Etymology 1

Old English rēad.

[ References

[ 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.
    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. (UK) 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.

[ Translations
having red as its colour
of hair: orange-brown
left-wing, socialist or communist
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  • Chinese:
Mandarin: 紅, 红 (hóng)
Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng

[ Noun

Singular
red

Plural
countable and uncountable; 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.
    red colour:    
  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)

[ Translations
colour
socialist, communist

[ Derived terms

terms derived from "red"