CRIMSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crimson mean? 

• CRIMSON (noun)
  The noun CRIMSON has 1 sense:

1. a deep and vivid red color

  Familiarity information: CRIMSON used as a noun is very rare.

• CRIMSON (adjective)
  The adjective CRIMSON has 3 senses:

1. of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

2. characterized by violence or bloodshed

3. (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

  Familiarity information: CRIMSON used as an adjective is uncommon.

• CRIMSON (verb)
  The verb CRIMSON has 1 sense:

1. turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

  Familiarity information: CRIMSON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRIMSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep and vivid red color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

crimson; deep red; ruby

Hypernyms ("crimson" is a kind of...):

red; redness (red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood)

Derivation:

crimson (turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame)

crimson (of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies)

• CRIMSON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Synonyms:

blood-red; carmine; cerise; cherry; cherry-red; crimson; red; reddish; ruby; ruby-red; ruddy; scarlet

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

crimson (a deep and vivid red color)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Characterized by violence or bloodshed

Synonyms:

crimson; red; violent

Context example:

convulsed with red rage

Similar:

bloody (having or covered with or accompanied by blood)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion

Synonyms:

crimson; flushed; red; red-faced; reddened

Context example:

flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment

Similar:

colored; colorful; coloured (having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination)

• CRIMSON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crimson    ... he / she / it crimsons   
Past simple: crimsoned   
Past participle: crimsoned   
-ing form: crimsoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

blush; crimson; flush; redden

Context example:

The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by

Hypernyms (to "crimson" is one way to...):

color; colour; discolor; discolour (change color, often in an undesired manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

crimson (a deep and vivid red color)

 Context examples 

A spare parlour and bedroom I refurnished entirely, with old mahogany and crimson upholstery: I laid canvas on the passage, and carpets on the stairs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He dipped it into the test-tube and it flushed at once into a dull, dirty crimson.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In and out through the open woodwork was woven a crimson cord, which was secured at each side to the crosspiece below.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long such an unwonted drain to the head.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reveal a tangle of dark, veinous clouds weaving their way through a massive crimson oval.

(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed, in a voice of the greatest emotion, Good God!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He pointed as he spoke, and there was a high crimson curricle coming down the London road, with two bay mares harnessed tandem fashion before it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He spoke with a gasping voice, and his face flushed crimson in the moonlight.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Go, pick up my things, like a cherub, as you are, said Jo, dropping down under a maple tree, which was carpeting the bank with crimson leaves.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Fanny's imagination had prepared her for something grander than a mere spacious, oblong room, fitted up for the purpose of devotion: with nothing more striking or more solemn than the profusion of mahogany, and the crimson velvet cushions appearing over the ledge of the family gallery above.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)