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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024pur•ple /ˈpɜrpəl/USA pronunciation n., adj., -pler, -plest. n. - any color having both red and blue, esp. one deep in tone: [uncountable]colored rich, dark purple.[countable]a rich, dark purple.
adj. - of the color purple.
- Rhetoricexaggerated and too ornate:purple prose.
- profane or shocking, as language.
Idioms- Idioms born to the purple, of royal birth.
pur•plish, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024pur•ple (pûr′pəl),USA pronunciation n., -pler, -plest, adj., v., -pled, -pling. n. - any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, esp. one deep in tone.
- cloth or clothing of this hue, esp. as formerly worn distinctively by persons of imperial, royal, or other high rank.
- Religionthe rank or office of a cardinal.
- the office of a bishop.
- imperial, regal, or princely rank or position.
- deep red;
crimson. - Insectsany of several nymphalid butterflies, as Basilarchia astyanax (red-spotted purple,) having blackish wings spotted with red, or Basilarchia arthemis (banded purple or white admiral,) having brown wings banded with white.
- Idioms born in or to the purple, of royal or exalted birth:Those born to the purple are destined to live in the public eye.
adj. - of the color purple.
- imperial, regal, or princely.
- brilliant or showy.
- Rhetoricfull of exaggerated literary devices and effects;
marked by excessively ornate rhetoric:a purple passage in a novel. - profane or shocking, as language.
v.t., v.i. - to make or become purple.
- Greek porphýra; compare purpure, porphyry
- Latin purpura kind of shellfish yielding purple dye, the dye, cloth so dyed
- Middle English purpel (noun, nominal and adjective, adjectival), Old English purple (adjective, adjectival), variant of purpure bef. 1000
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