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English

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Various shades of yellow
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yellow

Several of the most commoncolor words in English

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishyelwe, yelou, fromOld Englishġeolwe, oblique form ofOld Englishġeolu, fromProto-West Germanic*gelu, fromProto-Germanic*gelwaz, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰelh₃wós, from*ǵʰelh₃-(“gleam, yellow”).

Cognate withScotsyella(“yellow”),North Frisiangööl,güül(“yellow”),Saterland Frisianjeel(“yellow”),West Frisiangiel(“yellow”),Cimbriangel,ghéel(“yellow”),Dutchgeel(“yellow”),Dutch Low Saxongael,gel(“yellow”),Germangelb,gehl(“yellow”),German Low Germangel,geel,gęl,gäl(“yellow”),Luxembourgishgiel(“yellow”),Vilamoviangaoł(“yellow”),Yiddishגעל(gel),געלב(gelb,“yellow”),Danish,Norwegian Bokmål,Norwegian Nynorsk andSwedishgul(“yellow”),Faroese andIcelandicgulur(“yellow”). Compare alsoWelshgell(“bay, tawny”),Latinhelvus(“dull yellow”),Irishgeal(“white, bright”),Italiangiallo(“yellow”)Lithuanianžalias(“green”),Ancient Greekχλωρός(khlōrós,“light green”),Persianزرد(zard,“yellow”),Sanskritहरि(hari,“greenish-yellow”),Russianжёлтый(žóltyj,“yellow”),Russianзелёный(zeljónyj,“green”).

The verb is fromMiddle Englishyelwen,ȝalowen,ȝolewen, fromOld Englishġeolwian, from the adjective.

Noun

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yellow (countable anduncountable,pluralyellows)

  1. Thecolor of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixinggreen andred light, or by subtractingblue fromwhite light; the color evoked by light ofwavelength around 580 nm; one of the threeprimary colors insubtractive color systems.
    yellow: 
    • 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman,The Yellow Wallpaper:
      It is the strangestyellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
    • 2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, inCNN‎[2]:
      Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 andyellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens.
  2. (US) The middle light in a set of threetraffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
  3. (snooker) One of thecolorballs used insnooker, with a value of 2 points.
  4. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version ofpool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s));contraststripes andsolids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
  5. (sports) Ayellow card.
    • 2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, inBBC Sport‎[3]:
      Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That secondyellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated.
  6. Any of variouspierid butterflies of thesubfamilyColiadinae, especially the yellow colored species. Comparesulphur.
Synonyms
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  • (light wavelengths):xantho- (xanth-)
  • (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights):amber(British)
Hyponyms
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Coordinate terms
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  • (light in a set of three traffic lights):red,green
Derived terms
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Translations
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color

Adjective

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yellow (comparativeyellower,superlativeyellowest)

  1. Of ayellowhue.
    Antonyms:nonyellow,unyellow
    He had ayellow laptop in his bag.
  2. (informal) Lackingcourage.
    Synonym:cowardly
  3. (publishing, journalism) Characterized bysensationalism,lurid content, anddoubtfulaccuracy.
    • 2004 October 4, Doreen Carvajal, “Photo edict muffles gossipy press”, inInternational Herald Tribune, retrieved29 July 2008:
      The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose andyellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.
  4. (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnicslur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed toFar EastAsians, especially the Chinese.
  5. (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnicslur) Far East Asian(relating to Asian people).
    • 1913,Sax Rohmer,The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu‎[4]:
      Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, theyellow peril incarnate in one man.
    • 1959,Anthony Burgess,Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page516:
      The two youths, the brown and theyellow, faced each other at the cross-roads, under a dim street-lamp.
  6. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixedAboriginal andCaucasian ancestry.
    • 1938,Xavier Herbert, chapter VI, inCapricornia‎[5], page64:
      "Eh, Oscar—you hear about youryeller nephew?".
    • 1965,Mudrooroo,Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published2001, page74:
      A big full-blood gin cottoned onto me. “Give us a drink,yeller feller.”
  7. (dated, US)Synonym ofhigh yellow.
    • 1933 September 9,James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, inThe New Yorker:
      Charley threw her over for ayellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.
  8. (UK politics) Related to theLiberal Democrats.
    yellow constituencies
  9. (politics) Related to theFree Democratic Party, a political party inGermany.
    the black–yellow coalition
Derived terms
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Translations
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having yellow as its color
lacking courage

Verb

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yellow (third-person singular simple presentyellows,present participleyellowing,simple past and past participleyellowed)

  1. (intransitive) To become yellow or yellower.
    • 1977,Alistair Horne,A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published2006, page47:
      Then suddenly, with the least warning, the skyyellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.
    • 2013, Robert Miraldi,Seymour Hersh, Potomac Books, Inc.,→ISBN, page187:
      Interviews, clippings,yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream,[…]
  2. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or yellower.
  3. (transitive, historical, Royal Navy) To promote (a captain) toflag rank without command of a squadron, ending his career; to make him ayellow admiral.
    • 1938, C. S. Forester, chapter 2, inA Ship of the Line, London: Michael Joseph:
      Then they mightyellow him if they wanted to; he would be satisfied with Admiral’s rank.
Translations
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to become yellow or more yellow
to cause to become yellow or more yellow

Etymology 2

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From the colors used ontraffic lights; yellow being the one for warning vehicles to stop soon.

Interjection

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yellow

  1. (BDSM, procedure word)Used to indicate that the speaker needs a temporarybreak from currentsexualactivity.
    Coordinate terms:green,red

See also

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Colo(u)rs in English(layout ·text)
            red        orange            yellow            green            blue (incl.    indigo;
            cyan,teal,turquoise)		            purple /violet
        pink (including
        magenta)		        brown    white            gray/grey    black

References

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  1. ^Kurath, Hans;McDavid, Raven I., Jr. (1961),The pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States: based upon the collections of the linguistic atlas of the Eastern United States‎[1],Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press,→ISBN,→OCLC,§ 5.2,page134.

Further reading

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  • “yellow”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

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