purple

Definitions

1. 1noun

   A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.

2. 2noun

   Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.

3. 3noun

   Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.

4. 4noun

   A cardinalate. See Cardinal.

5. 5noun

   Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.

6. 6noun

   Any shell of the genus Purpura.

7. 7noun

   See Purpura.

8. 8noun

   A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.

9. 9adjective

   Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.

10. 10adjective

    Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.

11. 11adjective

    Blood-red; bloody.

12. 12transitive verb

    To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

13. 13noun

    a purple color or pigment

    Synonyms

    purpleness
14. 14noun

    of imperial status

    "he was born to the purple"

15. 15verb

    color purple

    Synonyms

    empurplepurpurate
16. 16verb

    become purple

17. 17adjective

    of a color intermediate between red and blue

    Synonyms

    purplishviolet
18. 18adjective

    belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

    "golden age of imperial splendor"

    "purple tyrant"

    Synonyms

    imperialmajesticregalroyal
19. 19adjective

    excessively elaborate or showily expressed

    "a writer of empurpled literature"

    "many purple passages"

    Synonyms

    empurpled