purple
a purple color or pigment
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,467 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,915 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a purple color or pigment also: purpleness
- (in ancient Rome) position of imperial status also: the purple he was born to the purple
- (Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes also: the purple
adjective
- of a color intermediate between red and blue also: violet, purplish
- excessively elaborate or showily expressed also: empurpled, over-embellished a writer of empurpled literaturemany purple passages
- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler also: imperial, majestic, regal, royal golden age of imperial splendorpurple tyrant
verb
- become purple
- color purple also: empurple, purpurate
purple in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1
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When his old kinsman entered, Cambyses was lying on his purple couch, pale as death.
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1
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Proud in the Syrian sun, In gold and purple sheen, The dusky Ethiop queen Smiled on King Solomon.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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The Major stepped into a rich, glowing room, full of red copper, and peacock and purple hangings, hat in hand.
The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1
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Why, it was a great big dewdrop, right in the middle of a purple violet, that was growing underneath a shady fern.
Uncle Wiggily's Travels · Howard Roger Garis · Chapter 1