Meaning of purple | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a purple hue.
2. murrey
3. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
   US
4. Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
   Belgium, Netherlands
5. a bruise
6. Imperial; regal.
7. Blood-red; bloody.
8. Of language, extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
9. Of a sector, lap, etc., completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.

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Examples

“So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.”

“purple state”

“purple city”

“In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.”

“As Mr. Friedlander conceived it, Reason was neither strictly right-wing libertarian nor strictly left — in modern parlance, neither red nor blue but a purple amalgam of the two.”

“Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue. I speak of North Carolina, and I have receipts: While our junior senator, Ted Budd, is a Republican who won election to a first term in 2022 by about three percentage points, our governor, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat who won election to a second term in 2020 by more than four.”

“Grovel on the earth: aye, hide / In the dust thy purple pride!”

“O may ſuch purple teares be alway ſhed”

“Wars, horrid Wars I view; a field of Blood; / And Tyber rolling with a Purple Flood.”

“Near-synonyms: flowery, overwrought”

“A writer who has made a career of churning out thick novels may be expected to write too quickly to notice that patches of her writing are unbearably purple.”

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