scarlet

CEFRB2

/ˈskɑɹlɪt/

adjective · noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Bright red in color, like a vivid red cloth or flower.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Cloth of a scarlet color.

Examples

  • Is scarlet a fruit or a color?

  • Scarlet is a beautiful color, but I like fuchsia.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
4
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Of a bright red colour.

  2. Sinful or whorish.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.

More examples

In context

  • I love the color scarlet!

  • He signed off our correspondence, “Well thank God for facemasks, cos I’m scarlet”.

  • a scarlet woman

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English scarlet, scarlat, borrowed from Old French escarlate (“a type of cloth”), from Medieval Latin scarlātum (“scarlet cloth”), of uncertain origin. This was long thought to derive from Classical Persian سقرلات (saqirlāt, “a warm woollen cloth”), but the Persian word (first attested in the 1290s) is now thought to be from Arabic سِقِلَّات (siqillāt), denoting very expensive, luxury silks dyed scarlet-red using the exceptionally expensive dye, first attested around the ninth century. The most obvious route for the Arabic word siqillāt to have entered the Romance languages would be via the Arabic-speaking Iberian region of al-Andalus, particularly Almería, where kermes was prod...