Red

Quick meaning: Red is a noun meaning (countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.

Meaning

(countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.

More Meanings

1. (countable and uncountable) Red wine.
2. (countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.
3. (countable, informal) A red variety of an animal, such as a red kangaroo or a red squirrel.
4. (countable, informal, UK, birdwatching) A redshank.
5. (derogatory, offensive) An American Indian.
6. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
7. (countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

Example Sentences

Red can be seen as hot or angry.

He produced a wine key from his jacket pocket and effortlessly removed the cork from the bottle of red.

A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / in our Italian restaurant.

No other country has a brewing tradition as richly diverse as that of Belgium, with beers ranging from pleasant pale lagers to wild, winelike Flemish reds and lambics.

Word Forms

• reds
• redder
• reddest
• redding
• redded

Synonyms for red

Depending on context, synonyms include carmine, cinnabar, claret, crimson, scarlet, vermilion.

Antonyms for red

Common opposites include unred, antired, white.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reddened, crimson, ruddy, redness, scarlet, flushed.

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