name
Meaning 1
A port city in central Vietnam.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
hue
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈhweɪ/
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hwā
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rhymes with -eɪ
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Canada, UK: /hjuː/
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Canada, UK: [ç(j)u̟ː]
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US: /hju/
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US: [ç(j)u]
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US: /ju/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /hjʉː/
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Australian, New-Zealand: [ç(j)ʉː]
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/hɪu̯/ Wales, Ottawa Valley
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rhymes with -uː
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homophone: hew
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homophone: Hugh
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homophone: Hiw
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CMU ARPABET: HH Y UW1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
Character; aspect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
Examples
- This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Form; appearance; guise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A shout or cry.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chromaticity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: color property
verb
Meaning 9
suffuse with color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: imbue
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
verb
Meaning 10
take on color or become colored
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alter, modify
Narrower terms: pigment
History
Etymology
From Vietnamese Huế (化).
From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).
From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.
Across languages
Translations
105 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: Хюе (Hjue) — city, province of Vietnam
- Chinese Cantonese: 順化 /顺化 (seon6 faa3) — city, province of Vietnam
- Chinese Mandarin: 順化 /顺化 (Shùnhuà) — city, province of Vietnam
- Dutch: Hué — city, province of Vietnam
- French: Hué — city, province of Vietnam
- Georgian: ჰუე (hue) — city, province of Vietnam
- German: Huë — city, province of Vietnam
- German: Hué — city, province of Vietnam
- Hebrew: הואה — city, province of Vietnam
- Japanese: フエ (Fue) — city, province of Vietnam
- Khmer: ហ្វេ (wee) — city, province of Vietnam
- Korean: 후에 (hue) — city, province of Vietnam
- Lao: ເວ້ (wē) — city, province of Vietnam
- Mongolian: Хюэ (Xjüe) — city, province of Vietnam
- Portuguese: Hue — city, province of Vietnam
- Portuguese: Hué — city, province of Vietnam
- Portuguese: Huê — city, province of Vietnam
- Russian: Хюэ́ (Xjué) — city, province of Vietnam
- Thai: เว้ (wée) — city, province of Vietnam
- Vietnamese: Huế — city, province of Vietnam
- Vietnamese: Thuận Hóa — city, province of Vietnam
- Bulgarian: нюанс (njuans) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Bulgarian: оттенък (ottenǎk) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Catalan: matís — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Catalan: to — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Chinese Mandarin: 色調 /色调 (sèdiào) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Chinese Mandarin: 色彩 (sècǎi) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Danish: farve — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Danish: skær — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Danish: kulør — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Dutch: schakering — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Dutch: kleurschakering — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Dutch: tint — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Esperanto: kolornuanco — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Esperanto: nuanco de koloro — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Finnish: väri — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Finnish: sävy — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Finnish: värisävy — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- French: teinte — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- French: nuance — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Galician: tonalidade — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- German: Farbton — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Greek: απόχρωση (apóchrosi) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Greek: χροιά (chroiá) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Hebrew: גוון (gaven) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Hungarian: színárnyalat — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Hungarian: árnyalat — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Icelandic: litblær — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Icelandic: litur — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Icelandic: farfi — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Italian: colore — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Italian: tinta — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Italian: sfumatura — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Italian: tonalità — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Italian: colorazione — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Italian: ombreggiatura — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Italian: tratteggio — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Japanese: 色彩 (shikisai) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Japanese: 色調 (shikichō) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Latin: color — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Lithuanian: atspalvis — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Norwegian: farve — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Norwegian: nyanse — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Norwegian Bokmål: kulør — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kulør — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Norwegian Nynorsk: let — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Occitan: tinta — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Occitan: tencha — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Occitan: tint — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Occitan: tench — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Occitan: matís — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Old English: hīew — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Persian: فام (fâm) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Polish: odcień — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Portuguese: matiz — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Portuguese: tom — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Portuguese: tonalidade — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Portuguese: nuança — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Portuguese: nuance — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Russian: отте́нок (otténok) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Sanskrit: रङ्ग (raṅga) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Spanish: matiz — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Swedish: kulör färgnyans — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Turkish: ton — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Ukrainian: відті́нок (vidtínok) — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Welsh: gwawr — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Welsh: gne — color or shade of color; tint; dye
- Catalan: matís — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Catalan: to — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Danish: farvetone — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Finnish: väri — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Finnish: sävy — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Finnish: värisävy — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Russian: отте́нок (otténok) — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Spanish: matiz — the characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color
- Bulgarian: нюанс (njuans) — character; aspect
- Catalan: to — character; aspect
- Danish: afskygning — character; aspect
- Dutch: aanblik — character; aspect
- Dutch: voorkomen — character; aspect
- Finnish: vivahde — character; aspect
- Finnish: häivähdys — character; aspect
- Greek: χροιά (chroiá) — character; aspect
- Italian: colorito — character; aspect
- Spanish: matiz — character; aspect