red
red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
How often you will meet it
Rank 423 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 47,548 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.023% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood also: redness
- a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana also: Red River
- emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries also: Bolshevik, Marxist, bolshie, bolshy
- the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue also: loss, red ink the company operated at a loss last yearthe company operated in the red last year
adjective
- of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies also: reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry
- characterized by violence or bloodshed also: crimson, violent writes of crimson deeds and barbaric daysfann'd by Conquest's crimson wing
- (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion also: crimson, reddened, red-faced, flushed crimson with furyturned red from exertion
red 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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Her cheeks were dark red and her eyes seemed to shoot forth flashes of lightning.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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And there was a tiny little red thing moving in the garden, no bigger than a fly.
The Water-Babies · Charles Kingsley · Chapter 1
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The sunbeams of summer were long past, and snowflakes had fallen thickly on the banks of Red River.
Snowflakes and Sunbeams · R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne · Chapter 1
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He put his money into a pair of red curtains, and one excellent photogravure of Landseer's "Children of the Mist."
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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The inundation had swept away trees, crops, and cattle, and left in their stead a waste of red sand and gray mud.
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know · Hamilton Wright [Editor] Mabie · Chapter 1