Definitions for purple

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purple pur·ple

Spelling: [pur-puh l]

IPA: /ˈpɜr pəl/

Purple is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in purple (elppru).

Definitions for purple

noun

1. any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
2. cloth or clothing of this hue, especially as formerly worn distinctively by persons of imperial, royal, or other high rank.
3. the rank or office of a cardinal.
4. the office of a bishop.
5. imperial, regal, or princely rank or position.
6. deep red; crimson.
7. any 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

1. born in / to the purple, of royal or exalted birth:

adjective

1. of the color purple.
2. imperial, regal, or princely.
3. brilliant or showy.
4. full of exaggerated literary devices and effects; marked by excessively ornate rhetoric:
5. profane or shocking, as language.
6. relating to or noting political or ideological diversity:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become purple.

Origin of purple

before 1000; Middle English purpel (noun and adjective), Old English purple (adjective), variant of purpure Latin purpura “kind of shellfish yielding purple dye, the dye, cloth so dyed” Greek

Examples for purple

So, Mrs. Shattuck printed out a cheer resume on purple paper and, as is her way, bedazzled the paper with rhinestones.

To one familiar with savage peoples there could be no doubt that these were close to the purple.

Here and there, sparingly, one of the dolls might be purple or green: “Rainbow Piets,” they call them.

Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.

"But there should be another one," cried the man in the purple coat.

Worse, when Richman woke up the next morning, her entire ear was purple.

Gather the grapes when they are full grown, but before they begin to purple.

That room—the cold, the purple light, the demonic transformations: it really haunts you.

The robe of fine Milesian texture, was saffron-coloured, with a purple edge.

They dropped from his grasp, and I saw that his fingers were purple and black.