Usually means: Purple color with short wavelength.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. violet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. violet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. violet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. violet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. violet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Violet, violet: Wordnik
  7. violet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Violet, violet: Wiktionary
  9. violet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. violet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. violet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. violet: Dictionary.com
  13. violet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. violet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Violet (Mozart), The Violet, Violet (Closterkeller album), Violet (Hole song), Violet (Peanuts), Violet (Seal song), Violet (The Birthday Massacre album), Violet (album), Violet (color), Violet (colour), Violet (disambiguation), Violet (fairy tale), Violet (given name), Violet (musical), Violet (name), Violet (opera), Violet (plant), Violet (upcoming film), Violet (video game), Violet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Violet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. violet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. violet: Rhymezone
  19. Violet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. violet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Violet: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. violet: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Violet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. violet: Free Dictionary
  25. violet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. violet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. Violet: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. violet: Cook's Thesaurus
  2. Violet: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. violet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. violet: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Violet: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. violet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Violet: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See violets as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A plant or flower of the genus Viola, especially the fragrant Viola odorata; (inexact) similar-looking plants and flowers.
noun:  (figurative) A person thought to resemble V. odorata, especially in its beauty and delicacy.
noun:  The color of most violets; the colour evoked by the shortest visible wavelengths between 380 and 435 nm, an additive tertiary colour.
noun:  Clothes and (ecclesiastical) vestments of such a colour.
noun:  (perfumes) The characteristic scent of V. odorata.
noun:  (UK dialect) Synonym of onion.
adjective:  Of a violet colour.
noun:  A female given name from English.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A census-designated place in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Nueces County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
noun:  A community in Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.

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