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reds¹

noun

  1. plural plural of red

Reds²

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In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Medieval Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).

noun

  1. plural plural of Red

proper noun

  1. informal, plural, plural only Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.

    Similar: Communist Party in various contexts

  2. historical, informal, plural, plural only The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red. Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view, the emperor Anastasius, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have been a Green, though contempora
  3. informal, plural, plural only Cincinnati Reds.
  4. informal, plural, plural only Liverpool FC.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: reddened, crimson, reddish, ruddy, redness, scarlet, flushed, ruby-red, cerise, carmine, cherry-red, cherry, ruby, blood-red, aflame, colored

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@misc{reds_2026,
  title = {reds},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/reds},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}