red

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suffused with blood from emotion or exertion, reddened

   My red face betrayed that I jogged to arrive on time for the meeting.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   Red wine.

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.

   American reds and doppelbocks are heavy lagers as well. It really comes down to how the beer was made. Beyond that, brewers are immensely creative and have developed styles of both ale and lager that run a wide range of attributes.

5. 5
   noun

   The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.

   What in the world ever became of sweet Jane? / She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same / Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine

6. 6
   noun

   A red light (a traffic signal)

   Stopping on the red, you're going on the green / Cause tonight will be like nothing you've ever seen / And you're barreling down the boulevard / You're looking for the heart of Saturday night

7. 7
   noun

   Chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red").

   Houston visited a home in an early pioneer settlement where he was offered a bowl of red. Houston eagerly took his first large spoonful. His eyes watering, he spat out his bite […]

8. 8
   noun

   The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.

   The species Sciaenops ocellatus certainly isn’t lacking for nicknames.[…] Clear water also favors sightcasting. Against the dark background of marsh mud, a red will appear like a pumpkin — big, orange and round.

Etymology

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 Inherited from Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic *raud, from Proto-Germanic *raudaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós, from *h₁rewdʰ- + *-ós. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratr…