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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 References 1.2.2 Adjective 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.2.3 Noun 1.2.3.1 Translations 1.2.4 Derived terms 1.2.5 See also 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Verb 1.4.1.1 References 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Verb 1.5.1.1 References 2 Bosnian 2.1 Noun 3 Croatian 3.1 Noun 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Verb form 5 Kurdish 5.1 Verb 6 Polish 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Noun 7 Serbian 7.1 Noun 7.1.1 Cyrillic spelling 8 Slovene 8.1 Noun 9 Spanish 9.1 Etymology 9.2 Noun 9.2.1 Related terms 10 Swedish 10.1 Verb 11 Turkish 11.1 Noun 11.2 Verb 12 Volapük 12.1 Etymology 12.2 Pronunciation 12.3 Noun 12.3.1 Derived terms 12.4 See also

[ English

[ Pronunciation

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

[ Etymology 1

Old English rēad.

[ References

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

[ 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. (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

• Chinese:

Mandarin: 紅, 红 (hóng)

Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng

• Interlingua: rubie, rubre, rubide (dark)

[ 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.

   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

[ Derived terms