purple

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noun

Plural noun:

purples

1.
(countable, uncountable)A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
Đồng nghĩa: blue-red
2.
(countable, uncountable)(colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
3.
(countable, uncountable)Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
to put on the imperial purple
4.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)(by extension) Imperial power.
1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire He was born in the purple.
5.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
6.
(countable, uncountable)The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
7.
(countable, uncountable)(medicine) Purpura.
8.
(countable, uncountable)Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
9.
(countable, uncountable)Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
the banded purple
10.
(countable, uncountable)A cardinalate.
11.
(US, abbreviation, alt of, countable, ellipsis, slang, uncountable)Ellipsis of purple drank.
12.
(UK, countable, slang, uncountable)Synonym of snakebite and black.
Đồng nghĩa: snakebite and black

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

purplermore purple

Superlative

purplestmost purple

1.
Of a purple hue.
Đồng nghĩa: purpureal
2.
(US)(US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
purple state
purple city
3.
(Belgium, Netherlands)Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
4.
Imperial; regal.
5.
Blood-red; bloody.
6.
(literature) Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought
Đồng nghĩa: flowery, overwrought
7.
(motor racing) Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

purples

V_ing/Gerund

purpling

V_ed/pp

purpled

1.
(intransitive)To turn purple in colour.
2.
(transitive)To dye purple.
3.
(transitive)To clothe in purple.

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blue-redsnakebite and blackpurpurealfloweryoverwroughtTexas tealeansizzurp

Trái nghĩa

nonpurplehaving purple as its colour nonpurple

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From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (purple), taken from Old English purpure (purple colour), from Latin purpura (purple dye, shellfish), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (purple-fish), perhaps of - origin. purpura purpure. The sense of "imperial power" is from the wearing of the color purple by emperors and kings.