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Definitions for Violet
[1] any chiefly low, stemless or leafy-stemmed plant of the genus Viola, having purple, blue, yellow, white, or variegated flowers. Compare violet family.
[2] any such plant except the pansy and the viola.
[3] the flower of any native, wild species of violet, as distinguished from the pansy: the state flower of Illinois, New Jersey, and Rhode Island.
[4] any of various similar plants of other genera.
[5] reddish-blue, a color at the opposite end of the visible spectrum from red, an effect of light with a wavelength between 400 and 450 nm.
[6] of the color violet; reddish-blue: violet hats.
[7] a female given name.
[8] any of various temperate perennial herbaceous plants of the violaceous genus Viola, such as V. odorata (sweet (or garden ) violet ), typically having mauve or bluish flowers with irregular showy petals
[9] any other plant of the genus Viola, such as the wild pansy
[10] any of various similar but unrelated plants, such as the African violet
[11] any of a group of colours that vary in saturation but have the same purplish-blue hue. They lie at one end of the visible spectrum, next to blue; approximate wavelength range 445–390 nanometres (as adjective ) a violet dress
[12] a dye or pigment of or producing these colours
[13] violet clothing dressed in violet
[14] shrinking violet informal a shy person
Words related to Violet
color, mauve, plum, lilac, lavender, periwinkle, heliotrope, pomegranate, mulberry, amethyst, magenta, wine, orchid, violaceous, amaranthine, perse
Words nearby Violet
violative, violence, violent, violent storm, violescent, violet, violet family, violet iris, violet wood, violin, violin clef
Origin of Violet
1300–50; Middle English < Old French violete, equivalent to viole (< Latin viola violet) + -ete -et
Word origin for Violet
C14: from Old French violete a little violet, from viole, from Latin viola violet