Violet

Quick meaning: Violet is a noun meaning A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.

Meaning

A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
2. The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
3. Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
4. (perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
5. (UK dialect) Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).
6. Of a violet colour.

Example Sentences

‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’

Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth century philosopher and occultist, states that coriander, valerian, and violet are love producing herbs.

Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me.

Word Forms

• violets
• violeter
• violetest

Synonyms for violet

Depending on context, synonyms include fuchsia, indigo, magenta, purple, rose, thistle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include purplish, purple, colored, chromatic, pansy, gentian.

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