yellow
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- noun
- /ˈjɛloʊ/
- Complementary colors, such as blue and yellow, are located on opposite sides of the triangle.
- blue and yellow
- green and yellow
- red and yellow
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- This T-shirt comes in red, blue, yellow, green and brown.
- Now these are I got yellow, soft pink and translucent.
Examples
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Today, they range in color from bright orange, yellow, and vermilion to soft shades of pink.
Academic text (2001) -
A few hours of rain and a little wind, the yellow was gone.
Academic text (2003) -
And they are usually green, yellow, red or black.
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- So do you like the color yellow?
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We're gonna paint the bathroom yellow.
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Yellow is for creativity, logic and other powers of the mind.
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The city's downtown is now a festival of amber, yellow, and silver lights below.
Fiction book (1992) -
My favorite color is yellow because it reminds me of sunshine.
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The walls of her bedroom are painted a soft shade of yellow.
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The yellow flowers bloomed beautifully in the garden this spring.
Synonyms
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A deep shiny yellow color like the metal used for coins and jewelry
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A bright yellow color like the skin of a ripe citrus fruit
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A very strong yellow color that is easy to see
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A light yellow colour that looks soft and not bright
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A bright yellow like the outside of a lemon
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A deep yellow color with a touch of orange
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A bright yellow color like a canary's feathers
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A strong yellow color like ripe corn
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A bright yellow color with a small touch of orange
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A shade of yellow, like pale or bright yellow
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A pale creamy yellow color like cake icing
Idioms
- Informal
To start a journey into the unknown that brings adventure and personal change
Compounds
- Specialized
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A serious disease spread by mosquitoes that makes the skin turn yellow
- Jargon
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An alert warning people about a specific emergency, for example bad weather or a missing person
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The second-longest river in northern China that flows east to the Yellow Sea and has yellow mud
- Literature
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Reporting that exaggerates and uses shocking stories to attract readers while ignoring the truth
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A small aggressive wasp with yellow and black stripes that often builds nests in the ground
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A small woodpecker with a pale yellow belly that drills rows of holes in trees to eat sap and insects
- US
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A freshwater fish with a yellow body and dark stripes, caught for food and sport
- Specialized
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A bright yellow pigment made from cadmium used in painting that is poisonous
- Literature
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A reporter who writes exaggerated or shocking stories to attract readers
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A large pine tree from the southeastern United States with long needles and rough reddish bark used for timber
- Specialized
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A small freshwater fish with yellowish colour that looks like a striped bass
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A large woodpecker with yellow feathers under its wings and tail and a red patch on its neck
- Literature
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Newspapers that print shocking and often untrue stories to get more readers
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A climbing evergreen plant that has sweet yellow funnel-shaped flowers and poisonous parts
- Specialized
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A night-active wading bird with a yellow crown found in North America
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A plant that lives for many years with broad rounded leaves, a bitter root, often growing as a weed
- US
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A tall evergreen tree from the Pacific coast of North America often grown in gardens and liked for its wood
- US
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A plant that lives many years with a thick knotted yellow underground stem and large rounded leaves
How Yellow
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yellow as a noun comes from the same old English root geolu and is the name for the color you see in sunflowers and ripe lemons, so it means that particular color.