Lavender

Quick meaning: Lavender is a noun meaning Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.

Meaning

Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.

More Meanings

1. A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
2. Having a pale purple colour.
3. (originally US) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.
4. (politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
5. (transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.
6. (film, historical, uncountable) A kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

Example Sentences

Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night.

“Now in here,” their guide, sweating dark tentacles into his tab collar, briefed them, “you are going to see the members of the third sex, the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for.

My sother (significant other) and I have been together almost nineteen years. Exactly half of the usual wedding vows taken traditionally by non-lavender couples — for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, — have been characteristic of our relationship.

Word Forms

• lavenders
• lavendering
• lavendered

Synonyms for lavender

Depending on context, synonyms include chromatic, lilac, colored.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lilac, colored, chromatic, violet, purple, sachet.

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