Usually means: Color of sun, warmth, brightness.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word yellow:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yellow, yellow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. yellow, yellow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yellow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yellow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yellow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Yellow, yellow: Wordnik
  7. yellow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. yellow: Wiktionary
  9. yellow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. yellow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. yellow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. yellow: Dictionary.com
  13. yellow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. yellow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Yellow, Yellow (Brymo album), Yellow (Coldplay song), Yellow (Kaela Kimura song), Yellow (Scandal album), Yellow (clothing), Yellow (color), Yellow (colour), Yellow (disambiguation), Yellow (manga), Yellow (short story collection), Yellow (song), Yellow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yellow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yellow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. yellow: Rhymezone
  19. yellow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yellow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Yellow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. yellow: Free Dictionary
  23. yellow: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. yellow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Yellow, yellow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Yellow: The Word Detective
  27. yellow: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. yellow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yellow: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. yellow: Cook's Thesaurus
  3. Yellow: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Yellow (Colour), Yellow (color), yellow: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yellow: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Yellow (Colour), Yellow (color), yellow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Yellow (Colour), Yellow (color), yellow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yellow: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Yellow (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. yellow, yellow, yellow, yellow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Yellow: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. yellow: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See yellowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of a yellow hue.
adjective:  (informal) Lacking courage.
adjective:  (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
adjective:  (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
adjective:  (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
adjective:  (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
adjective:  (dated, US) Synonym of high yellow
adjective:  (UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
adjective:  (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.
noun:  The colour of sunflower petals and lemons; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
noun:  (US) The mid light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
noun:  (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
noun:  (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
noun:  (sports) A yellow card.
noun:  Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
verb:  (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

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