adj
Meaning 1
Having a pale purple colour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
lavender
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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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈlæv.ən.dəː/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈlæv.ən.dəː] ~ [ˈlæv.n̩.dəː]
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General-American: /ˈlæv.ən.dɚ/
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General-American: [ˈlæv.ən.dɚ] ~ [ˈlæv.n̩.dɹ̩]
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rhymes with -ævəndə(ɹ)
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adj
Meaning 2
Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.
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adj
Meaning 3
Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
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Topics: government, politics
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name
Meaning 4
A surname.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A female given name from English.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Georgia, United States, named after a storekeeper.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 7
An unincorporated community in Kittitas County, Washington, United States, named after John Lavender.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 8
A subzone of Kallang, Singapore.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 9
Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 10
A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
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noun
Meaning 11
A kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.
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Usage: historical, uncountable
Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
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verb
Meaning 12
To decorate or perfume with lavender.
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Usage: transitive
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adjective satellite
Meaning 13
of a pale purple color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lilac, lilac-colored
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noun
Meaning 14
a pale purple color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: purple, purpleness
noun
Meaning 15
any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: shrub, bush
Narrower terms: English lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, Lavandula officinalis, French lavender, Lavandula stoechas, spike lavender, Lavandula latifolia
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Medieval Latin lavendulader. Old French lavendrebor. Middle English lavendre English lavender 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.
Across languages
Translations
95 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: zacht lila — colour
- Esperanto: lavendoblua — colour
- French: lavande — colour
- French: bleu lavande — colour
- Hungarian: levendulaszínű — colour
- Japanese: 藤色の (fujiiro no) — colour
- Persian: بنفش روشن (banafš-e rošan) — colour
- Romanian: liliachiu — colour
- Romanian: violaceu — colour
- Arabic: خُزَامَى (ḵuzāmā) — plant
- Arabic: ضِرْم (ḍirm) — plant
- Armenian: նարդոս (nardos) — plant
- Bulgarian: лаванду́ла (lavandúla) — plant
- Catalan: espígol — plant
- Chinese Cantonese: 薰衣草 (fan1 ji1 cou2) — plant
- Chinese Mandarin: 薰衣草 (xūnyīcǎo) — plant
- Czech: levandule — plant
- Danish: lavendel — plant
- Dutch: lavendel — plant
- Esperanto: lavendo — plant
- Estonian: lavendel — plant
- Finnish: laventeli — plant
- French: lavande — plant
- West-Frisian: lavindel — plant
- Galician: arzaia — plant
- Galician: cantroxo — plant
- Galician: lavanda — plant
- German: Lavendel — plant
- Greek: λεβάντα (levánta) — plant
- Hebrew: אזוביון (azovyón) — plant
- Hungarian: levendula — plant
- Icelandic: lofnarblóm — plant
- Ido: lavendo — plant
- Indonesian: lavender — plant
- Irish: labhandar — plant
- Irish: lus liath — plant
- Italian: lavanda — plant
- Japanese: ラベンダー (rabendā) — plant
- Khmer: ឡាវេនឌឺ (laaveindɨɨ) — plant
- Korean: 라벤더 (rabendeo) — plant
- Malay: lavender — plant
- Middle English: lavendre — plant
- Old English: nard — plant
- Persian: استوخدوس (ostoxodus) — plant
- Persian: لاواند (lâvând) — plant
- Polish: lawenda — plant
- Portuguese: lavanda — plant
- Portuguese: alfazema — plant
- Romanian: levănțică — plant
- Romanian: lavandă — plant
- Russian: лава́нда (lavánda) — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: lavanda — plant
- Sicilian: spica di san Paulu — plant
- Slovene: sivka — plant
- Lower Sorbian: lawendel — plant
- Spanish: lavanda — plant
- Spanish: espliego — plant
- Spanish: cantueso — plant
- Spanish: alhucema — plant
- Spanish: lavándula — plant
- Swahili: mrujuani — plant
- Swedish: lavendel — plant
- Tagalog: alusema — plant
- Thai: ลาเวนเดอร์ (laa-wen-də̂ə) — plant
- Turkish: lavanta — plant
- Ottoman Turkish: لاوانطه (lavanda, lavanta) — plant
- Ukrainian: лава́нда (lavánda) — plant
- Vietnamese: oải hương — plant
- Welsh: lafant — plant
- Bulgarian: лавандула (lavandula) — colour
- Danish: lavendel — colour
- Dutch: lavendel — colour
- Esperanto: lavendobluo — colour
- Finnish: laventeli — colour
- Finnish: laventelinsininen — colour
- French: bleu lavande — colour
- Galician: arzaña — colour
- Georgian: ლავანდისფერი (lavandisperi) — colour
- German: Lavendel — colour
- Greek: λεβάντα (levánta) — colour
- Hungarian: levendulaszín — colour
- Indonesian: lavender — colour
- Irish: lus liath — colour
- Italian: lavanda — colour
- Japanese: 藤色 (fujiiro) — colour
- Korean: 연보라색 (yeonborasaek) — colour
- Malay: gandaria — colour
- Portuguese: cor de lavanda — colour
- Portuguese: lilás — colour
- Romanian: violaceu — colour
- Spanish: lavanda — colour
- Swahili: urujuani — colour
- Swedish: lavendelblå — colour
- Swedish: gredelin — colour
- Vietnamese: oải hương — colour
Real reading context