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orange

noun
/ˈɒɹ.ɪnd͡ʒ/UK/ˈɔɹ.ənd͡ʒ/CA/ˈɑɹ.ənd͡ʒ/US/ˈɔɹ.ɪnd͡ʒ//ˈɒ.ɹɪnd͡ʒ/UK

Etymology

Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ Old Occitan auranjainflu. Old French pomme d'orenge Old French orenge Middle French orangebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi)). Originally borrowed as the surname (derived from the place name) in the 13th century, before the sense of the fruit was imported in the late 14th century and the colour in 1510. In the colour sense, largely displaced ġeolurēad, whence yellow-red.

  1. derived from नारङ्ग — “orange tree”
  2. derived from نَارَنْگْ
  3. derived from نَارَنْج
  4. derived from melarancio
  5. derived from auranja
  6. derived from pome orenge — “fruit orange”
  7. inherited from orenge

Definitions

  1. An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the…

    An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).

  2. Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste

    Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.

  3. The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.

  4. ›+ 14 more definitions

    1. Various drinks

      • “What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?” Sean asked.
      • I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men.
      • It transpired this lad was drinking orange and faculties were keen. There were one or two verbal exchanges, then I followed him into the car park. He said to the doorman, 'I won't be long.' He easily knocked me to the ground.

    2. An orange-coloured roundel.

      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange.

    3. Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree

      Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

    4. To colour orange.

      • It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold
      • Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak.
      • I looked at him through my binoculars, his little lips oranged with Cheeto dust.

    5. To become orange.

      • Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky
      • It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch.
      • "What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see.

    6. A city in Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

    7. The Orange River (the longest river in South Africa).

    8. A city in New South Wales

      A city in New South Wales; named for William II of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange from 1815 to 1840.

    9. A local government area in central New South Wales, Australia

      A local government area in central New South Wales, Australia; in full, the City of Orange.

    10. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

      • For diarrhea caused by a stomach virus or a meal that didn’t agree with you, try the BRAT diet, says James Lee, MD, gastroenterologist with St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif.

    11. Prince or Princess of Orange. Title of the first-born to the Dutch Royal House.

    12. a Loyalist or a member of the Orange Order

      a Loyalist or a member of the Orange Order; someone, usually a Protestant, who advocates keeping Northern Ireland under British control.

    13. A surname.

    14. Relating to the Orange Order.

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Derived

acridine orange, African cherry orange, Alpine grassland orange, bergamot orange, bitter orange, blaze orange, blood orange, blorange, bog orange, box orange, burnt orange, cadmium orange, calamondin orange, cherry orange, China orange, chrome orange, citrange, clockwork orange, coolie orange, Cox's Orange Pippin, direct orange, East Orange, emergency orange, green orange, hardy orange, horned orange, international orange, Jaffa orange, light orange, Lombard Street to a China orange, mandarin orange, methyl orange, Mexican orange, mock orange, mock-orange, monkey orange, naphthol orange, Natal orange, native orange, navel orange · +111 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at orange. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at orange. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at orange

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA