name
Meaning 1
A city in Alberta, Canada, the centre of Red Deer County.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
red deer
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.
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Pronunciation
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General-American: /ɹɛd dɪɹ/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɹɛd dɪə/
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noun
Meaning 2
A species of large deer, Cervus elaphus, found in Europe and southwestern Asia.
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noun
Meaning 3
The wapiti or North American elk, Cervus canadensis, a deer species of North America, long believed to be a subspecies of the European red deer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
Meaning 4
common deer of temperate Europe and Asia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deer, cervid
Narrower terms: hart, stag, hind, brocket
History
Etymology
A translation of Cree ᐘᐢᑲᓲ ᓰᐱᕀ (waskasoo siipiy, “elk creek”), mistranslated by British fur traders as red deer river after mistaking elk for European red deer. The mistranslated name was used to name the Red Deer River which served as the namesake for the original settlement.
Across languages
Translations
87 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Cantonese: 紅鹿市 /红鹿市 (hung4 luk6 si5) — city in Alberta, Canada
- Chinese Mandarin: 紅鹿市 /红鹿市 (Hónglùshì) — city in Alberta, Canada
- Plains-Cree: mihkwâpisimosos — city in Alberta, Canada
- French: Red Deer — city in Alberta, Canada
- Korean: 레드디어 (redeudieo) — city in Alberta, Canada
- Marathi: रेड डीअर (reḍ ḍīar) — city in Alberta, Canada
- Albanian: dre i rëndomtë — Cervus elaphus
- Armenian: ազնիվ եղջերու (azniv eġǰeru) — Cervus elaphus
- Azerbaijani: nəcib maral — Cervus elaphus
- Basque: orein — Cervus elaphus
- Belarusian: але́нь (aljénʹ) — Cervus elaphus
- Breton: karv ruz — Cervus elaphus
- Bulgarian: благороден елен (blagoroden elen) — Cervus elaphus
- Catalan: cérvol comú — Cervus elaphus
- Chechen: гӏела (ğela) — Cervus elaphus
- Chinese Cantonese: 馬鹿 /马鹿 — Cervus elaphus
- Chinese Mandarin: 馬鹿 /马鹿 (mǎlù) — Cervus elaphus
- Czech: jelen lesní — Cervus elaphus
- Danish: kronhjort — Cervus elaphus
- Dutch: edelhert — Cervus elaphus
- Esperanto: cervo — Cervus elaphus
- Estonian: punahirv — Cervus elaphus
- Faroese: krúnhjørtur — Cervus elaphus
- Finnish: saksanhirvi — Cervus elaphus
- French: cerf commun — Cervus elaphus
- French: cerf rouge — Cervus elaphus
- French: cerf élaphe — Cervus elaphus
- French: élaphe — Cervus elaphus
- West-Frisian: reahart — Cervus elaphus
- Friulian: cierf — Cervus elaphus
- Galician: cervo — Cervus elaphus
- Georgian: კეთილშობილი ირემი (ḳetilšobili iremi) — Cervus elaphus
- German: Rothirsch — Cervus elaphus
- Greek: ελάφι (eláfi) — Cervus elaphus
- Greek: κόκκινο ελάφι (kókkino eláfi) — Cervus elaphus
- Hungarian: szarvas — Cervus elaphus
- Icelandic: krónhjörtur — Cervus elaphus
- Irish: fia rua — Cervus elaphus
- Italian: cervo nobile — Cervus elaphus
- Japanese: 赤鹿 (akashika) — Cervus elaphus
- Kalmyk: марл (marl) — Cervus elaphus
- Kazakh: кермарал (kermaral) — Cervus elaphus
- Korean: 붉은사슴 (bulgeunsaseum) — Cervus elaphus
- Ladin: cerf — Cervus elaphus
- Latgalian: aļņs — Cervus elaphus
- Latin: cervus — Cervus elaphus
- Latvian: briedis — Cervus elaphus
- Lithuanian: elnias — Cervus elaphus
- Low German: roothirsch — Cervus elaphus
- Low German: hartbock — Cervus elaphus
- Macedonian: елен (elen) — Cervus elaphus
- Maltese: ċerf l-aħmar — Cervus elaphus
- Manx: feeaih ruy — Cervus elaphus
- Norwegian Bokmål: hjort — Cervus elaphus
- Norwegian Bokmål: hjortekolle — Cervus elaphus
- Norwegian Bokmål: hind — Cervus elaphus
- Norwegian Bokmål: kronhjort — Cervus elaphus
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hjort — Cervus elaphus
- Occitan: cèrvi — Cervus elaphus
- Old English: heort — Cervus elaphus
- Old Norse: hjǫrtr — Cervus elaphus
- Picard: chérfe — Cervus elaphus
- Polish: jeleń szlachetny — Cervus elaphus
- Portuguese: veado — Cervus elaphus
- Portuguese: cervo — Cervus elaphus
- Romani: cherbo — Cervus elaphus
- Romanian: cerb comun — Cervus elaphus
- Romansh: tschierv cotschen — Cervus elaphus
- Russian: благоро́дный оле́нь (blagoródnyj olénʹ) — Cervus elaphus
- Northern Sami: ruksesgoddi — Cervus elaphus
- Sardinian: crebu — Cervus elaphus
- Sardinian: crefu — Cervus elaphus
- Sardinian: cherbu — Cervus elaphus
- Sardinian: chervu — Cervus elaphus
- Scottish Gaelic: fiadh — Cervus elaphus
- Serbo-Croatian: јелен — Cervus elaphus
- Serbo-Croatian: jelen — Cervus elaphus
- Slovak: jeleň lesný — Cervus elaphus
- Slovene: navadni jelen — Cervus elaphus
- Spanish: ciervo rojo — Cervus elaphus
- Swedish: kronhjort — Cervus elaphus
- Turkish: alageyik — Cervus elaphus
- Turkish: kızıl geyik — Cervus elaphus
- Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎊𐎍 (ảyl) — Cervus elaphus
- Ukrainian: оле́нь (olénʹ) — Cervus elaphus
- Walloon: cier — Cervus elaphus
- Welsh: carw coch — Cervus elaphus