| Red | |
| 1. s. A Communist. | |
| 2. s. A supporter of a sports team who wears red as part of their kit. | |
| 3. adj. Communist | |
| the Red Army | |
| 4. adj. Having red as its color. | |
| The girl wore a red skirt. | |
| 5. adj. (of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger. | |
| Her hair had red highlights. | |
| 6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare black | |
| I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens. | |
| 7. adj. (often, capitalized) Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: | |
| 8. adj. (US, modern) the U.S. Republican party | |
| a red state | |
| a red Congress | |
| 9. adj. (also British) Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germ | |
| the red-black grand coalition in Germany | |
| 10. adj. (chiefly derogatory, offensive) Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations | |
| 11. adj. (astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation. | |
| 12. adj. (particle physics) Having a color charge of red. | |
| 13. s. Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from | |
| (color panel, F00000) | |
| 14. s. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | |
| 15. s. (snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours. | |
| 16. s. Red wine. | |
| 17. s. (informal, birdwatching) A redshank. | |
| 18. s. (derogatory, offensive) An Amerind. | |
| 19. s. (slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug. | |
| 20. s. (informal) A red light (a traffic signal) | |
| 21. s. (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal) red lemonade | |
| 22. s. (particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks. | |
| 23. s. (US, colloquial) chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red") | |
| 24. v. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of rede | |
| 25. v. alternative spelling of redd | |
