Definitions from Wiktionary (purple)
▸ noun: A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
▸ noun: (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (by extension) Imperial power.
▸ noun: Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
▸ noun: The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
▸ noun: (medicine) Purpura.
▸ noun: Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
▸ noun: Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
▸ noun: A cardinalate.
▸ noun: (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
▸ adjective: Of a purple hue.
▸ adjective: (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
▸ adjective: (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
▸ adjective: Imperial; regal.
▸ adjective: Blood-red; bloody.
▸ adjective: (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
▸ adjective: (motor racing, of a sector, lap, etc.) Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
▸ verb: (transitive) To dye purple.
▸ verb: (transitive) To clothe in purple.
▸ noun: (rare) A surname from Middle English.
▸ noun: (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank. [(slang) A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.]
▸ Also see purple
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▸ noun: A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
▸ noun: (colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: (by extension) Imperial power.
▸ noun: Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
▸ noun: The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
▸ noun: (medicine) Purpura.
▸ noun: Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
▸ noun: Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
▸ noun: A cardinalate.
▸ noun: (UK, slang) Synonym of snakebite and black.
▸ adjective: Of a purple hue.
▸ adjective: (US politics) Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
▸ adjective: (in Netherlands and Belgium) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
▸ adjective: Imperial; regal.
▸ adjective: Blood-red; bloody.
▸ adjective: (of language) Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
▸ adjective: (motor racing, of a sector, lap, etc.) Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To turn purple in colour.
▸ verb: (transitive) To dye purple.
▸ verb: (transitive) To clothe in purple.
▸ noun: (rare) A surname from Middle English.
▸ noun: (slang, US) Ellipsis of purple drank. [(slang) A recreational drug based on cough syrup, popular in the hip-hop community in the southern United States.]
▸ Also see purple
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