Definitions for Violet

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Violet vi·o·let

Spelling: [vahy-uh-lit]

IPA: /ˈvaɪ ə lɪt/

Violet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in Violet (eilotv).

Definitions for Violet

noun

1. any chiefly low, stemless or leafy-stemmed plant of the genus Viola, having purple, blue, yellow, white, or variegated flowers. Compare violet family.
2. any such plant except the pansy and the viola.
3. the flower of any native, wild species of violet, as distinguished from the pansy: the state flower of Illinois, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
4. any of various similar plants of other genera.
5. reddish-blue, a color at the opposite end of the visible spectrum from red, an effect of light with a wavelength between 400 and 450 nm.
6. a female given name.

adjective

1. of the color violet; reddish-blue:

Origin of Violet

1300-50; Middle English Old French violete, equivalent to viole (Latin viola violet) + -ete -et

Examples for Violet

The odd (though beautiful) pair here is Daisy and violet Hilton, conjoined twins who were a hit on the vaudeville circuit.

Then the snowdrop sang a lullaby about the moss that loved the violet.

Instead, violet is kidnapped and solid to a rival courtesan house, where she is trained by an older courtesan named Magic Gourd.

Not titillating sex, but, as Lulu and violet both discover, the business of sex.

A long, long play-day it was to the little vine, the daisy, and the violet.

Then she looked up at the lawyer, and there were new lusters in the violet eyes.

The rising of the stars, or the opening of a violet; each fact was a surprise to her.

Sutton Foster abandoned her usual perky personna to play scared and scarred in violet, and voters may reward her effort.

Mary regarded the owner of the store with grave questioning in her violet eyes.

Streep plays violet Weston, a woman unraveled after her husband's suicide.