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Pronunciation
enPR|r�d, IPA|/r�d/, SAMPA|/rEd/
audio|en-us-red.ogg|Audio (US)
Homophones: read (past tense/participle).

Etymology 1
OE. read#Old English|r�ad.

References
rfc-level|References at L4+ not in L3 POS section
R:Online Etymology Dictionary|red
R:1913|red

Adjective
en-adj|redd|er

1. Having red as its colour.

#: The girl wore a red skirt.

1. Of hair, having an orange-brown colour.

#: Her hair had red highlights.

1. leftwing|Leftwing, socialist or communist.

#*"Only Nixon could go to China" was the refrain of conventional wisdom during Richard Nixonâ��s 1972 official visit to Mao Tse-tungâ��s regime. Nixonâ��s anti-communist credentials, however dubious, provided useful camouflage as he opened diplomatic relations with Red China and made breathtaking concessions that an undisguised liberal couldnâ��t get away with. ¹

1. context|US|modern Supportive of the Republican Party.

#:a red state

1. context|US|modern Dominated by the Republican Party.

#:a red Congress

1. context|US|modern Of or pertaining to the Republican Party.

#:a red advertisement

1. UK Supportive of the Labour Party.
2. astronomy Of the lower-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

Translations
trans-top|having red as its colour
Afrikaans: rooi
Albanian: kuq
Amuzgo: be#Amuzgo|be
Arabic: ARchar|اح�ر (�áħmar)
Armenian: Õ¯Õ¡Ö�Õ´Õ«Ö� (karmir)
Basque: gorri
Bosnian: crven
Breton: ru, ruz
Bulgarian: �е�вен (�erven) m
Catalan: roig, vermell m
Chickasaw: homa
Chinese: �, 红 (hóng)
Croatian: crven
Czech: �ervený
Danish: rød
Dutch: rood
Esperanto: ru�a
Estonian: punane
Ewe: dzĩ
Fijian: damudamu
Finnish: punainen
French: rouge
Frisian: read
German: rot#German|rot
Greek: ε��θ��� (erithros) m, κ�κκινο� (kokinos) m, άλικο� (alikos) m
Hawaiian: 'ula
Hebrew: ���|�ָ�ֹ�/����|�ָ��ֹ� (adom) m, ����|�ָ�ֻּ��ָ/�����|�ָ�ּ�ּ�ָ� (aduma) f
Hungarian: piros, vörös
trans-mid
Icelandic: rauður
Indonesian: merah
Irish: dearg
Italian: rosso
Japanese: 赤� (���, akai)
Korean: 빨� (ppalgan)
Latvian: sarkans
Maori: whero
Norwegian: rød
Novial: redi
Polish: czerwony
Portuguese: vermelho
Rohingya: lal
Romani: l�lo
Romanian: ro�u
Russian: к�а�н�й (krásnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: dearg
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ��вена#Serbian|��вена f
:Roman: crvena#Serbian|crvena f
Slovak: �ervený
Slovene: rde� m, rde�a f, rde�e n
Spanish: rojo, colorado
Swedish: röd
Tagalog: pula
Telugu: �ర�ర, �ర�రని
Turkish: kırmızı, al, kızıl-
Vietnamese: ��; h�ng (Sino-Vietnamese)
Welsh coch
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trans-top|of hair: orange-brown
Catalan: pel-roig
Dutch: ros, rosse
French: roux m, rousse f
German: rot, rothaarig
Greek: κ�κκινο� (kokinos) m
Hebrew: ���נ�|�ָ�ְ�ֹנִ�/����נ�|�ָ�ְ��ֹנִ� (admoni) m, ���נ�ת|�ָ�ְ�ֹנִ�ת/����נ�ת|�ָ�ְ��ֹנִ�ת (admonit) f
Irish: rua
trans-mid
Polish rudy m
Portuguese ruivo
Russian: ��жий (rýžij) m, ��жа� f, ��жее n
Scottish Gaelic: ruadh
Slovene: rde� m, rde�a f, rde�e n
Spanish: colorín, pelirrojom, pelirrojaf
Swedish: röd
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trans-top|left-wing, socialist or communist
Catalan: roig
German: rot
Greek: κ�κκινο� (kokinos) m
trans-mid
Slovene: rde� m, rde�a f, rde�e n
Spanish: rojo
Vietnamese: ��
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Translations to be checked
checktrans
ttbc|Chinese:
:Mandarin: �, 红 (hóng)
:ttbc|Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): róng
ttbc|Interlingua: rubie, rubre, rubide (dark)

Noun
en-noun|s|-

1. context|countable|and|uncountable Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters.

#:<table><tr><td>red colour: &nbsp;</td><td bgcolor"#FF0000" width"80">&nbsp; </td></tr></table>

1. countable A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
2. context|countable|snooker One of the 15 red balls used in snooker
3. slang The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.

#*1971: The big market, these days, is in Downers. Reds and smack�Seconal and heroin�and a hellbroth of bad domestic grass sprayed with everything from arsenic to horse tranquillizers. � Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 202)

Translations
trans-top|colour
Afrikaans: rooi
Albanian: kuq
Breton: ruz
Bosnian: crvena#Bosnian|crvena f
Bulgarian: �е�вен (�erven) m
Catalan: vermell m, roig m
Cherokee: ���� (gigagei)
Chickasaw: homa
Chinese: ��, 红� (hóng sè)
Croatian: crvena#Croatian|crvena f
Czech: �ervený
Danish: rød
Dutch: rood#Dutch|rood
Esperanto: ru�a
Estonian: punane
Ewe: dzĩ
Finnish: punainen
French: rouge#French|rouge m
Frisian: read#Frisian|read
German: Rot#German|Rot n
Greek: κ�κκινο (kókkino), ε��θ�� (erithró), �ο����� (porfiró), αλ�κ� (aliko)
Guaraní: pytã
Hebrew: ���� (adom)
Hindi लाल (l�l)
Hungarian: piros, vörös
Icelandic: rauður
Ido: reda
Indonesian:
:Standard Indonesian: merah
:Javanese: abang, abrit
:Sundanese: beureum
Interlingua: rubio, rubro, rubido (dark)
Irish: dearg, rua (dark)
Italian: rosso m
trans-mid
Japanese: 赤 (��, aka)
Khmer: KMchar|�����
Korean: 빨� (bbalgan)
Kurdish: sor, al, KUchar|س��ر
Kyrgyz: к�з�л (qızıl)
Latin: ruber m, rubra f, rubrum n
Latvian: sarkans m, sarkana f
Lithuanian: raudonas m, raudona f
Lojban: xunre
Malayalam: ��വപ�പ� (chuvappu)
Maltese: aħmar
Norwegian: rød
Novial: redi
Malay: merah
Polish: czerwie� m
Portuguese: vermelho m, vermelha f, encarnado m
Romanian: ro�u
Russian: к�а�н�й (krásnyj) m, к�а�на� f, к�а�ное n
Scottish Gaelic: dearg, ruadh (dark red, auburn)
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: ��вена#Serbian|��вена f
:Roman: crvena#Serbian|crvena f
Slovak: �ervená
Slovene: rde�a f
Spanish: rojo
Swedish: röd. rött
Tagalog: pula
Tamil: �ிவப�ப� (civappu/cOppu)
Telugu: �ర�ప�
Tupinambá: pirang, pitang
Turkish: kırmızı, al#Turkish|al
Vietnamese: mầu ��; h�ng
Welsh: rhudd, coch
Wunese Soochownese (Rúnüt Suodsy-réro): rón,róngneser
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trans-top|socialist, communist
Catalan: roig m, roja f
German: Rote m/f, Roter m indef.
Greek: κ�κκινο (kókkino)
trans-mid
Spanish: rojo
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Derived terms
rel-top4|terms derived from "red"
blood red
brick red
cherry red
Chinese red
chrome red
Congo red
in the red
Indian red
Little Red Riding Hood
Old Red Sandstone
Panama Red
phenol red
Pompeian red
ragged red fibers
red admiral
red alert
red algae
red ant
Red Army
redback
red-baiting
red-baked shrike
red bay
red-bellied black snake
red biddy
redbird
red blood cell
red-blooded
Red Brigades
redbud
redbug
red cabbage
red card
red carpet
red cedar
red cell
red cent
Red China
rel-mid4
red circle rate
red clover
red Clydeside
redcoat
red coral
red corpuscle
Red Crescent
Red Cross
redcurrant
redden
red-diaper baby
reddish
red diesel
red drum
red earth
red ensign
redeye
red-faced
red fescue
red fire
redfish
red flag, Red Flag
red fox
red giant
red goods
red-green coalition
Red Guard
red gum
red-handed
red hat
redhead
redheaded
red heat
red herring
redhorse
red-hot
red-hot poker
rel-mid4
red ink
red kangaroo
Red Ken
red lead
red leaf
red leg
red-legged grasshopper
Red Leicester
red-letter day
red light
red-light district
Red List
red maple
red marrow
red mass
red meat
red menace
red mist
red mite
red mulberry
red mullet
red oak
red ocher
red osier
red packet
red panda
red-pencil
red pepper
red pine
red planet
red-point
redpoll
Red Poll
red puccoon
red rag
red rattle
red ribbon
rel-mid4
redroot
red route
red scare
Red Sea
red setter
red shank
redshank
red shift
red-shouldered hawk
red siskin
red snapper
red snow
red spider
Red Spot
red spruce
Red Square
red squill
red squirrel
red state<!--(red state, a state that voted for the Republican presidential candidate)-->
red steenbras
reds under the bed
red tape
red tide
redtop
red-top
red valerian
Red Vienna
red water
red whortleberry
redwing
red-winged blackbird
red wolf
redwood
red worm
river red gum
see red
Turkey red
Venetian red
western red cedar
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See also
top3
carmine
crimson
primary colour
mid3
ruby
ruddy
Rudolf
mid3
scarlet
vermilion
Wiktionary Appendix:Colours|Appendix:Colours

Etymology 2
From the archaic verb rede.

Verb
red

1. archaic past of|rede

Etymology 3
From OE. hreddan "to save, to deliver, recover, rescue," < PG. *hradjan.

Verb
en-verb|reds|redding|redded|redded

1. colloquial alternative spelling of|redd

References
R:Online Etymology Dictionary|redd
R:1913

Etymology 4
ME. < MLG., compare Dutch redden.

Verb
en-verb|reds|redding|redded|redded

1. context|transitive|Pennsylvania alternative spelling of|redd

References
R:Online Etymology Dictionary|redd

Category:1000 English basic words
Category:Colors of the Rainbow
Category:Colors
Category:Communism
Category:Reds

Bosnian

Noun
red m (plural redovi)

1. row

Category:Bosnian nouns

Croatian

Noun
red

1. row
2. analysis|lang=hr series

Category:Croatian nouns

Dutch

Pronunciation
IPA|/r�d/

Verb form
red

1. <!--DefL-->first-person singular present tense of redden#Dutch|redden
2. <!--DefM-->singular imperative present tense of redden#Dutch|redden

<!--Do not provide translations of verb forms: these belong in the conjugation to be given at "redden"

1. save

#:Ik red het kind - I save the child

1. be all right, be OK

#:Ik red het wel - I�ll be OK
-->

Kurdish

Verb
red

1. To disappear.

Category:Kurdish verbs

Serbian

Noun
red m (plural redovi)

1. row

Cyrillic spelling
�ед#Serbian|�ед

Category:Serbian nouns

Spanish

Etymology
L.|es rete, �net�.

Noun
red f (plural redes)

1. web, mesh
2. trap, snare
3. net, network
4. computing|lang=es Web, Internet

Related terms
enredar
enredo
redada
redecilla
reticular
retina

Category:Spanish nouns

Swedish

Verb
red

1. Imperative of reda.
2. Preteritum of rida.

Category:Swedish verbs

Turkish

Noun
red

1. refusal

Verb
red (with the auxillary verb etmek)

1. To refuse.

Category:Turkish nouns

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