reds
- 1Plural of red.
The gallery walls were hung with deep reds and warm golds.
She always favored bold reds over the softer pastel tones.
Note
A plural that does different work depending on which red is meant. For the color itself it counts shades (deep reds, bright reds), because the bare color word is often uncountable. Elsewhere it simply counts things: the fifteen reds on a snooker table, a rack of reds in a wine shop, Communists, and, capitalized, supporters of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. Context, not form, tells them apart.
reds is a form of red
red, noun: The color of blood, strawberries, and the setting sun, evoked by the longest visible wavelengths of light, around 625 to 740 nanometers; also a primary additive color. Full entry
- Forms
- redreds plural
- Spelling
- red → reds: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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