red | Lernwerd

Forms

1.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.
- Red can be seen as hot or angry.
2.A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- The French flag is blue, white, and red.
- There are many red flowers in the garden.
- No, the flowers are not green, but red, white, yellow or blue.
3.One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- The French flag is blue, white, and red.
- There are many red flowers in the garden.
- No, the flowers are not green, but red, white, yellow or blue.
4.Red wine.
- 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.

1.Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
- Her hair had red highlights.
2.Having a redder hue than usual due to embarrassment, anger, sunburn, etc.; flushed.
3.Having a brown color.
4.Of a red hue.
- Your colour, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
- The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows.
- The girl wore a red skirt.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós

Proto-Germanic *raudaz

Proto-West Germanic *raud

Old English rēad

Middle English red

English red