Ochre

Quick meaning: Ochre is a noun meaning A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.

Meaning

A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide.

More Meanings

1. A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour.
2. (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA".
3. Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
4. Having a yellow-orange colour.
5. (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
6. To cover or tint with ochre.
7. (slang, dated) Money, especially gold.

Example Sentences

The sun gloats in the sky, casting a gleam on the pasture where there was so much umbering and ochreing only moments before.

‘What does he come here cheeking us for, then?’ cried Master Kidderminster, showing a very irascible temperament. ‘If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors and take it out.’

[…] his eye was caught by the sight of one child in a group of smaller children playing in the shallows some little distance down—a white child, so white by contrast with the others that at first he thought it must be ochred, which it could not be while playing in the water.

Word Forms

• ochres
• ocher
• ochring
• ochreing
• ochred

Synonyms for ochre

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

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ocher, colored, chromatic, tan, oker, uran-ochre.

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