lavender

CEFRC1

/ˈlæv.ən.dəː/

noun · adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A plant with purple flowers and a pleasant smell.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Pale purple in color.

Examples

  • There was lavender as far as the eye could see.

  • This is a beautiful field of lavender in France.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
3

Also pronounced

  • [ˈlæv.ən.dəː] ~ [ˈlæv.n̩.dəː]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

  2. A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.

  3. Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.

More examples

In context

  • “Now in here,” their guide, sweating dark tentacles into his tab collar, briefed them, “you are going to see the members of the third sex, the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for.

  • Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The farmer's field was filled with the sweet smell of purple blank flowers in bloom.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“to wash”) due to the use of lavender in washing clothes.