RED CROSS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Red Cross mean? 

• RED CROSS (noun)
  The noun RED CROSS has 1 sense:

1. an international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime

  Familiarity information: RED CROSS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED CROSS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An international organization that cares for the sick or wounded or homeless in wartime

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Red Cross" is a kind of...):

NGO; nongovernmental organization (an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government)

 Context examples 

Down goes the red cross, and up springs Simon with the scarlet roses!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The red cross was, of course, far too large to be a guide; and the terms of the note on the back, as you will hear, admitted of some ambiguity.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It is the red cross of Genoa.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was dressed from head to foot in a long white linen cloth, and a high white cap with a red cross printed upon it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She asked me if I was going to the Red Cross and make bandages.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)