violet
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violet¹
- /ˈvaɪ.ə.lət/ US, UK
- /ˈvaɪ.lət/ US, UK
Rhymes with -aɪlət
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English violet, vyolet, vyolette, from Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet”) + -ette. Cognate with Lithuanian violetinė (“purple, violet”) and Spanish violeta (“purple, violet”).
noun violets
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A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
Refreshed by their cooling bath of evening dew, the violets and other nocturnal flowers emitted a pleasant fragrance over the fields, but from the bogs and the rivulets came up now and then damp, penetrating gusts, that sent an icy chill through me.
Similar: rooster
- A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy. ‘Tom,’ he said, ‘you are looking at a crushed violet, a spent egg, a squeezed tube.’
- The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
- Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
- The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
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Synonym of onion (“vegetable”).
Similar: onion
Similar: fuchsia, indigo, magenta, purple, rose, thistle, ultraviolet, violet
adjective violeter · violetest
- Of a violet colour.
Violet²
Rhymes with -aɪlət
Where it comes from
A 19th century flower name from violet, sometimes as an anglicisation of the earlier French Violette.
proper noun
- A female given name from English. It may be as well to say, by way of parenthesis, that her real name was Violante,―at least, such was the name by which her mother had her christened. But her father thought it much too long, and said it was better to call her Violet.
- A surname.
- A census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
- An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Nueces County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
- A community in Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: purplish, purple, colored, chromatic, reddish blue, pansy, gentian, lavender, clover, blue, midget, dwarf, woman, eva, lettering, dash
Translations
Every language
noun plant
| Español | violeta |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 제비꽃 jebikkot |
| 日本語 | 菫 sumire, スミレ sumire |
| 中文 | 紫羅蘭 /紫罗兰 zǐluólán, 堇菜 jǐncài |
| हिन्दी | बनफ़्शा banafśā, बनफशा banaphśā |
| Português | violeta |
| Français | violette |
| Deutsch | Veilchen |
| Italiano | viola |
| Ελληνικά | μενεξές menexés |
| Română | violetă, viorea |
| Русский | фиа́лка fiálka |
| العربية | بَنَفْسَج banafsaj |
| עברית | סיגל sigal |
noun colour
| Español | violeta, violáceo |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 보라색 borasaek |
| 日本語 | 紫色 murasakiiro, 菫色 sumireiro, 青紫 aomurasaki |
| 中文 | 紫色 zǐsè, 紫羅蘭色 /紫罗兰色 zǐluólánsè |
| Português | violeta, lilás |
| Français | violet |
| Deutsch | Violett |
| Italiano | viola |
| Ελληνικά | βιολετί violetí |
| Română | violet |
| Русский | фиоле́товый fiolétovyj, фиоле́товый цвет fiolétovyj cvet |
| Tiếng Việt | tím |
| العربية | بَنَفْسَجِيّ banafsajiyy |
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title = {violet},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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