orange
- adjective
- /ˈɔrɪndʒ/
- She wore an orange dress that brightened up the entire party.
- bright orange
- orange color
- blue and orange
And then you could say black cable, orange to two, white to five.
- And then you could say black cable, orange to two, white to five.
- It looks tan and it looks bronze without looking orange whatsoever.
- Because they were in the white doctor gowns with their orange faces and white necks.
Examples
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The orange-themed protest featured children dressed in orange chanting "kids have a right to a mom and a dad."
Academic text (2013) -
It's got orange and red streaking.
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This one is in orange or soft orange.
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Orange clothes, orange makeup, like everything orange, it's fashion lately.
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It's just that perfect burnt orange, like little checkered dress.
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And this is the Jason Wu product, which is quite orange and quite red based.
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That's a sweater similar to that, but it's orange instead of tan.
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Is it just because there's so much orange around and I don't know why?
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At 6:10, a man came out of an orange orchard and walked towards us.
Academic text (1991) -
The sunset painted the sky a beautiful shade of orange that took my breath away.
Synonyms
A little like the color orange
Having the color of a ripe orange
A color that looks a little like orange between red and yellow
A color that is between orange and red
A color between yellow and orange, like a sunset
A colour between yellow and orange, like a sunset
Having the color of a ripe orange
A color like orange with a little red
A red color that looks partly orange
A bright orange color with a red tone like fire
An orange color with a hint of pink
A color between pink and orange
Idioms
Compounds
- Literature
A strong chemical sprayed in the Vietnam War to kill plants that caused long-term harm to people and land
A Protestant group in Northern Ireland that holds yearly parades celebrating union with Britain
A sweet spread made from oranges with small pieces of peel for bread or toast
- Specialized
An orange paint colour artists use that stays bright for a long time
A frozen concentrate of orange juice that you mix with water before drinking
A tree that makes bitter oranges used as root for other orange trees and for marmalade
A small citrus tree from Italy with pear-shaped fruit whose oil flavors tea and perfumes
A type of orange tree that produces small sour fruit and is used for grafting and marmalade
An apple eaten fresh with yellow to orange skin that tastes sweet and smells nice
A small tree from Southeast Asia that grows sweet, easy-to-peel orange fruit
A small orange tree that makes sour fruit used for marmalade and to start new orange trees
- Specialized
An orange dye used in labs that changes color to show if a liquid is acidic or basic
A North American annual plant with yellow or orange flowers that grows in wet, acidic soil
- Australian
A small bat with orange fur that lives in forests in northwest Australia
A tall plant that lives for many years and has bright orange flowers that attract butterflies
A bog plant with spikes of orange-yellow flowers that grows in the southeastern United States
A former province in central South Africa settled by Dutch farmers, renamed Free State in 1997
- Offensive
An armed Protestant group in Northern Ireland that attacks Catholics and their property
A bright orange cup-shaped growth on the ground that looks like an orange peel
- Specialized
A small moth whose caterpillars feed on oranges and damage fruit crops
- NSFW
A Protestant armed group in Northern Ireland known for attacks on Catholic people and opposition to peace talks
- Australian
Small Australian orchid with loose groups of scented white flowers marked purple and orange
A large river in southern Africa that flows west to the Atlantic and forms part of the border with Namibia
A plant that lives for several years with drooping orange-yellow flowers that can make sheep sick
How Bright
Surface Forms
Etymology
The adjective orange means 'the color of an orange', so we use it to describe anything that has the same bright, red-yellow colour as the fruit.