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Reds en · NOUN

Etymology

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).

Meanings

1. (form-of, plural) plural of Red
   form of Red

Reds en · PROPN

Etymology

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).

Meanings

1. (informal, plural, plural-only) Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.
2. (historical, informal, plural, plural-only) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly ▸ The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red.
   • Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view, the emperor Anastasius, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have been a Green, though contemporary evidence makes him a Red. 2002, James Allan Stewart Evans, The Age of Justinian..., p. 38
3. (informal, plural, plural-only) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly ▸ Cincinnati Reds.
4. (informal, plural, plural-only) Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly ▸ Liverpool FC.

Coordinates

Greens (Roman charioteering factions) · Whites (Roman charioteering factions) · Blues (Roman charioteering factions) · Golds (Roman charioteering factions) · Purples (Roman charioteering factions)

Deriveds

COYR

Synonyms

Communist Party in various contexts