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What does red mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word red? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Having red as its color.
  2. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
  3. (card game) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black (“of the spades or clubs suits”)
  4. (capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:
    1. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party
    2. (also Britain) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
  5. (derogatory) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
  6. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
  7. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red.
Noun
  1. (countable and uncountable) Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, 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; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.
  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. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
  5. (derogatory) An Amerind.
  6. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
  7. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal)
  8. (Ireland, Britain, beverages, informal) red lemonade
  9. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.
  10. (US, colloquial, uncountable) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
Verb
  1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede
Verb
  1. Alternative spelling of redd
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