Meaning of yellow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of a yellow hue.
2. yellow or golden
3. Lacking courage.
   informal
4. To make or become yellow: documents that had been yellowed by age; clouds that yellow in the evening light.
5. or (colour on a coat of arms)
6. Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
7. Slang. Ignobly lacking in courage:chickenhearted, cowardly, craven, dastardly, faint-hearted, lily-livered, pusillanimous, unmanly.
8. Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
   derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur
9. (of) the colour of gold, the yolk of an egg etc. a yellow dress; yellow sands; Yellow is my favourite colour. geel أصْفَر жълт amarelo žlutý, žluť gelb, das Gelb gul κίτρινος, το κίτρινο χρώμα amarillo kollane زرد؛ طلایی keltainen jauneצהוב पीला रंग žuto sárga kuning gulur giallo 黄色(の) 노란색의, 황색 geltonas dzeltena krāsa; dzeltens kuning geelgul; gult; eggeplommeżółty زيړ، ژړ، ژيړرنګى، ژړغونى (ژيړ توكمى، ژيړ پوستى لكه مغولى نژاد)، ډارن، بې زړه، درغل، لمسوونكى، باروونكى زيړ، ژړ، ژيړرنګى، ژړغونى (...
   etc
10. whitey (British: sickness, especially when induced by cannabis use)
11. Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
    derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur
12. to make or become yellow. It was autumn and the leaves were beginning to yellow. vergeel يَصْفَر пожълтявам amarelar žloutnout gelb färben blive gul; gulne κιτρινίζωamarillear kollaseks muutma, kolletama زرد کردن kellastua jaunir לֵהַצהיִב पीला पड़ना या होना žutjeti (meg)sárgít; (meg)sárgul menjadi kuning gulna ingiallire 黄色にする 노래지다 gelsti, geltoninti dzeltēt; krāsot dzeltenu menjadi kuning vergelengulne, bli/farge gul żółknąć ژيړول، ژيړېدل amarelecer a (se) în­gălbeni желтеть žltnúť rumeneti...
13. first-person singular present indicative of amarillar
14. Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
    Australia, dated, offensive
15. geelheid صُفْرَه، إصْفِرار жълтина amarelo žluť gelbe Farbe gulhed κιτρινάδα amarillento kollasus زردی keltaisuus ton jaune צֵהיִבוּת पीलापन žutilo sárgaság; gyávaság warna kuning gulur litur colore giallo �������いこと 노랗게 함 geltonumas dzeltenums kekuningan het geel zijn gulfarge żółty kolor زيړى amarelidão (culoare) galben желтизна žltosť, žlť rumenost žutilo gulhet, gul färg ความเหลือง; ความคร่ำ sarılık 黃色 жовтизна پیلاپن màu vàng 黄色
16. Synonym of high yellow.
    US, dated
17. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between orange and green, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 570 to 590 nanometers; any of a group of colors of a hue resembling that of ripe lemons and varying in lightness and saturation; one of the subtractive primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
18. Related to the Liberal Democrats.
    UK
19. Chiefly Southern US The yolk of an egg.
    Chiefly Southern US
20. Related to the Free Democratic Party, a political party in Germany.
21. Western US Gold. Used formerly by prospectors.
    Western US
22. yellows Any of various plant diseases characterized by yellow or yellowish discoloration of the leaves and caused by phytoplasmas that are transmitted by insects or by certain viruses.
23. Of the color yellow.

Equivalents

Examples

“He had a yellow laptop in his bag.”

“A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.”

“Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.”

“There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.”

“dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ȝelouȝ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liȝt red tokeneþ mene.”

“What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.”

“You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!”

“The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.”

“They were all tall and all handsome, though they varied in their degree of darkness of skin, some being as dark as Mahomed, and some as yellow as a Chinese.”

“Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.”

“The two youths, the brown and the yellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp.”

“"Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".”

“A big full-blood gin cottoned onto me. “Give us a drink, yeller feller.””

“Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.”

“yellow constituencies”

“the black–yellow coalition”

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