red
n.n. the color of blood, cherries, or a stop sign. It is often linked with strong feelings like love, passion, and anger.
n. the color at the long-wavelength end of the visible light spectrum, next to orange.
Red is my favorite color for a car.
In many cultures, the color red symbolizes good fortune and is popular during celebrations and holidays.
The painter's masterful use of red transformed the canvas, evoking a sense of urgent passion that simpler palettes could not convey.
From Middle English red, from Old English rēad, from Proto-West Germanic raud, from Proto-Germanic raudaz from Proto-Indo-European h₁rowdʰós, from the root h₁rewdʰ-. Cognates See also West Frisian read, Low German root, rood, rot, rod, Dutch rood, German rot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål rød, Norwegian Nynorsk raud; also Welsh rhudd, Latin ruber, rufus, Tocharian A rtär, Tocharian B ratre, Ancient Greek ἐρυθρός (eruthrós), Albanian pruth (“redhead”), Russian ру́дый (rúdyj) ("red", "redhaired"). Czech rudý, Lithuanian raúdas, Finnish rauta, Estonian raud, Serbo-Croatian riđ ("reddish", "red"), Avestan 𐬭𐬀𐬊𐬌𐬛𐬌𐬙𐬀 (raoidita), Sanskrit रुधिर (rudhirá, “red, bloody”).
From the archaic verb rede.