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Meaning of purple

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  purple
      adj 1: of a color intermediate between red and blue [syn:
             {purple}, {violet}, {purplish}]
      2: excessively elaborate or showily expressed; "a writer of
         empurpled literature"; "many purple passages"; "an over-
         embellished story of the fish that got away" [syn:
         {empurpled}, {over-embellished}, {purple}]
      3: belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of
         imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated
         with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
         [syn: {imperial}, {majestic}, {purple}, {regal}, {royal}]
      n 1: a purple color or pigment [syn: {purple}, {purpleness}]
      2: of imperial status; "he was born to the purple"
      v 1: become purple
      2: color purple [syn: {purple}, {empurple}, {purpurate}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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