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yellow
CEFRA1
/ˈjɛləʊ/
adjective · noun
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
adjective
Having the color of lemons or the sun.
- 02
noun
The color between green and orange.
Examples
I got a parking fine for parking on double yellow lines.
There are several flowers. One is red, another is white, and the others are yellow.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- [-ə(w)]
- /ˈ(j)ɛlːoː/
Deep Dive
adjective
Extra meaningsOne of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
noun
Extra meaningThe color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
More examples
In contextWho's the girl in a yellow raincoat?
He had a yellow laptop in his bag.
the black–yellow coalition
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Origin
adjective
From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós, from *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Scots yella (“yellow”), North Frisian gööl, güül (“yellow”), Saterland Frisian jeel (“yellow”), West Frisian giel (“yellow”), Cimbrian gel, ghéel (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”), Dutch Low Saxon gael, gel (“yellow”), German gelb, gehl (“yellow”), German Low German gel, geel, gęl, gäl (“yellow”), Luxembourgish giel (“yellow”), Vilamovian gaoł (“yellow”), Yiddish געל (gel), געלב (gelb, “yellow”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gul...