Definitions for yellow

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yellow yel·low

Spelling: [yel-oh]

IPA: /ˈyɛl oʊ/

Yellow is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in yellow (ellowy).

Definitions for yellow

noun

1. a color like that of egg yolk, ripe lemons, etc.; the primary color between green and orange in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 570 and 590 nm.
2. the yolk of an egg.
3. a yellow pigment or dye.
4. Informal. yellow light.
5. Slang. yellow jacket (def 2).

adjective

1. of the color yellow.
2. Disparaging and Offensive. designating or pertaining to an Asian person or Asian peoples. designating or pertaining to a person of mixed racial origin, especially of black and white heritage.
3. having a sallow or yellowish complexion.
4. Informal. cowardly.
5. (of a newspaper, book, etc.) featuring articles, pictures, or other content that is sensational, especially morbidly or offensively so: dishonest in editorial comment and the presentation of news, especially in sacrificing truth for sensationalism, as in yellow journalism; yellow press.
6. jealous; envious.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to make or become yellow:

Origin of yellow

before 900; 1895-1900 for def 9; Middle English yelou (adj. and noun), Old English geolo, geolu (adj.); cognate with Dutch geel, German gelb, Latin helvus pale-yellow; akin to Old Norse gulr

Examples for yellow

It was very old and yellow, and torn, too, and we could not read it.

But when he was defeated in 1815, the Jews were sent back and forced to wear a yellow star again.

Here and there a yellow clump of forsythia is like a spot of sunshine.

Abraham, a yellow cab driver and student, feels that blacks are targeted unfairly by the police.

She bounded about in the sun and chased the blue and yellow butterflies.

The arrow that he sped from his cross-bow struck in the yellow flanks.

A yellow hazardous material bin placed out on the lawn, just beyond some red tape reading “Danger Do Not Enter,” left no doubt.

yellow fever ravaged Philadelphia in first few weeks of October 1793.

With the first set I did, the colors of the couch determined that the rest of it would be blue and yellow and white.

I am the master-shipman of this yellow cog, and my name is Goodwin Hawtayne.