red

1. 1

   The color of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the color which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive color.countableuncountable

   • Red can be seen as hot or angry.
2. 2

   A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.countable

3. 3

   One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.countable

4. 4

   Red wine.countableuncountable

   • A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant.
   • He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red.
5. 5

   Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.countable

   • American reds and doppelbocks are heavy lagers as well. It really comes down to how the beer was made. Beyond that, brewers are immensely creative and have developed styles of both ale and lager that run a wide range of attributes.
   • No other country has a brewing tradition as richly diverse as that of Belgium, with beers ranging from pleasant pale lagers to wild, winelike Flemish reds and lambics.
6. 6

   A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.countableinformal

7. 7

   A redshank.UKcountableinformal

8. 8

   An American Indian.countablederogatoryoffensive

9. 9

   The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.countableslanguncountable

   • What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? / She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same / Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine
   • 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.
10. 10

    A red light (a traffic signal)countableinformaluncountable

    • Stopping on the red, you're going on the green / Cause tonight will be like nothing you've ever seen / And you're barreling down the boulevard / You're looking for the heart of Saturday night

syn. carmine · cinnabar · claret · crimson · rosé · scarlet · vermilion

1. 1

   Of a red hue.

   • The girl wore a red skirt.
   • He was wearing a red jacket.
2. 2

   Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.

   • Her hair had red highlights.
3. 3

   Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.

   • [T]he sun was shining on a happy crowd. It shone on white hats and red faces. It shone on ice lollies and melted them.
4. 4

   Having a brown color.

5. 5

   Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)

   • I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.
6. 6

   Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:; Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.capitalizedoften

   • the red-black grand coalition in Germany
7. 7

   Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:; The U.S. Republican Party.UScapitalizedoften

   • a red state
   • a red Congress
8. 8

   Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations.derogatoryoffensive

   • All my friends are Indians / All my friends are brown and red
9. 9

   Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

10. 10

    Of a red color charge.particle

syn. scarlet · crimson · vermilion · ruby-red · cherry-red · cerise · cardinal-red · carmine · wine-red · claret-red · blood-red · coral-red

ant. nonred · unred · antired

1. 1

   Used to indicate that the speaker wishes current sexual activity to stop immediately.

1. 1

   simple past and past participle of redearchaicform-ofparticiple

1. 1

   Alternative spelling of redd.alt-ofalternative