purple
A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
Noun 4 meanings
A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
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.
“to put on the imperial purple”
Imperial power.
“1776-1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire He was born in the purple.”
Adjective 4 meanings
Of a purple hue.
Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
Imperial; regal.
Verb 3 meanings
To turn purple in colour.
To dye purple.
To clothe in purple.
Etymology
From Middle English purple, purpel, from Old English purpul (“purple”, adjective), taken from Old English purpure (“purple colour”, noun), from Latin purpura (“purple dye, shellfish”), from Ancient Greek πορφύρα (porphúra, “purple-fish”), perhaps of Semitic origin. Doublet of purpura and purpure.
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PURPLE at a glance
PURPLE has 6 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (P 3 + U 1 + R 1 + P 3 + L 1 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,104 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with purple
All rhymes- PEOPLE10
- EXAMPLE18
- COUPLE10
- SIMPLE10
- MULTIPLE12
- APPLE9
- SAMPLE10
- TEMPLE10
- PRINCIPLE15
- TRIPLE8
- MAPLE9
- AMPLE9
One letter away
- PURPLY13
- PURFLE11
- PURPIE10
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