orange

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of the color between red and yellow

   similar to the color of a ripe orange

2. 2
   noun

   Various drinks

   “What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked.

3. 3
   noun

   An orange-coloured roundel.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange.

4. 4
   verb

   To color orange.

   It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold

5. 5
   verb

   To become orange.

   Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky

6. 6
   name

   A number of places in the United States:

   For diarrhea caused by a stomach virus or a meal that didn’t agree with you, try the BRAT diet, says James Lee, MD, gastroenterologist with St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif.

7. 7
   noun

   any pigment producing the orange color

8. 8
   noun

   orange color or pigment

Etymology

Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ Old Occitan auranjainflu. Old French pomme d'orenge Old French orenge Middle French orangebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and color) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَ…