orange
//ˈɒɹɪnd͡ʒ//
Forms
- Plural
- oranges
- Comparative
- oranger
- Superlative
- orangest
- present (v1)
- orange
- past (v2)
- oranged
- past participle (v3)
- oranged
- present participle
- oranging
- 3rd person singular
- oranges
Definitions
1.Various drinks
- I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men.
2.An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
- I have an orange and an apple.
- They have an orange cat.
3.Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.
- I have an orange and an apple.
- They have an orange cat.
4.The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.
- I have an orange and an apple.
- They have an orange cat.
1.Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.
2.Of or relating to the Orange Order.
1.To colour orange.
- I looked at him through my binoculars, his little lips oranged with Cheeto dust.
- Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak.
2.To become orange.
- "What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see.
- It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3258
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Etymology tree
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Italian melaranciacalq.
Old French Orengeinflu.
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Old Occitan auranjainflu.
Old French pomme d'orenge
Old French orenge
Middle French orangebor.
Middle English orenge
English orange