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pur·ple  (pûrpl)

n.

1. Any of a group of colors with a hue between that of violet and red.

2. Cloth of a color between violet and red, formerly worn as a symbol of royalty or high office.

3. Imperial power; high rank: born to the purple.

4. Roman Catholic Church

a. The rank or office of a cardinal.

b. The rank or office of a bishop.

adj.

1. Of the color purple.

2. Royal or imperial; regal.

3. Elaborate and ornate: purple prose.

tr. & intr.v. pur·pled, pur·pling, pur·ples

To make or become purple.

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[Middle English, from Old English purpul, from purpure, purple garment, from Latin purpura, shellfish yielding purple dye, purple cloth, purple, from Greek porphur.]

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purple [ˈpɜːp^əl]

n

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) any of various colours with a hue lying between red and blue and often highly saturated; a nonspectral colour

2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Dyeing) a dye or pigment producing such a colour

3. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) cloth of this colour, often used to symbolize royalty or nobility

4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (usually preceded by the) high rank; nobility

5. (Christianity / Roman Catholic Church)

a.  the official robe of a cardinal

b.  the rank, office, or authority of a cardinal as signified by this

(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms)

the purple bishops collectively

adj

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) of the colour purple

2. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (of writing) excessively elaborate or full of imagery purple prose

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) noble or royal

[Old English, from Latin purpura purple dye, from Greek porphura the purple fish (Murex)]

purpleness  n

purplish  adj

purply  adj

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	purple - a purple color or pigment             purpleness chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour - a color that has hue lavender - a pale purple color mauve - a moderate purple reddish purple, royal purple - a shade of purple tinged with red reddish blue, violet - a variable color that lies beyond blue in the spectrum
	2.	purple - of imperial status; "he was born to the purple" noblesse, nobility - the state of being of noble birth
Verb	1.	purple - become purple discolour, discolor, color, colour - change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
	2.	purple - color purple empurple, purpurate color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
Adj.	1.	purple - of a color intermediate between red and blue purplish, violet chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue
	2.	purple - excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-embellished story of the fish that got away" empurpled, over-embellished rhetorical - given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
	3.	purple - belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head" regal, majestic, imperial, royal noble - of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times; "of noble birth"

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purple

Shades of purple

amethyst, aubergine, burgundy, carmine, claret, dubonnet, gentian, gentian blue, heather, heliotrope, indigo, lavender, lilac, magenta, mauve, mulberry, pansy, peach-blow, periwinkle, plum, puce, royal purple, Tyrian purple, violet, wine

Translations

purple [ˈpɜːpl]

A. ADJ → morado
to go purple (in the face) → enrojecer
Purple Heart (US) (Mil) decoración otorgada a los heridos de guerra
purple heart → (píldora f de) anfetamina f
purple prose → prosa f de estilo inflado

B. N (= colour) → púrpura f, morado m

C. VT → purpurar

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purple [ˈpɜː^rp^əl] adj (bluish) → violet(te); (reddish) → pourpre
Purple Heart n (US) décoration attribuée aux blessés de guerre
purple patch purple passage n → état m de grâce
She's enjoying a purple patch at the moment → Elle est en état de grâce en ce moment.

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purple

adj → violett, lila; face → dunkelrot, hochrot; (pej) prose, passage → hochgestochen, hochtrabend; to go purple (in the face) → hochrot werden or anlaufen (inf)

n

(= colour) → Violett nt, → Lila nt

(fig) the purple (= nobility) → der Adel; (= bishops) → der Kardinalsstand; to be born to the purple → von königlichem Geblüt sein; to be raised to the purple → den Kardinalspurpur anlegen

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purple [ˈpɜːpl]

1. adj → viola inv
to go purple (in the face) → diventare paonazzo/a, farsi di porpora

2. n (colour) → viola m inv (Rel) the purple → la porpora

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purple

n / adj purple [ˈpəːpl]

(of) a dark colour made by mixing blue and red. pers أرْجُوان، أرْجُواني лилав nach(ový) violet; purpur purpurn μοβ púrpura, morado punakaslilla ارغوانی purppuranpunainen violet סֶגוֹל बैंगनी bíbor(piros) ungu fjólublár, purpuralitur porpora 紫色 자줏빛 purpurinė/violetinė spalva; purpurinis, violetinis purpurs; purpursarkans ungu purper purpur, fiolett fioletowy roxo violet фиолетовый (цвет) purpur; purpurový vijoličen ljubičast purpur, mörklila สีม่วง mor 紫色［的］ пурпурний колір ارغواني رنگ màu đỏ tía 紫色［的］

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purple → أرجواني purpurový purpur violett πορφυρός morado violetti violet ljubičast viola 紫色の 자줏빛의 paars purpurfarget purpurowy roxo пурпурный lila ที่มีสีม่วง mor tím 紫色的