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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A legendary reindeer with a nose that glows red, the subject of a comic Christmas song; often added among Santa Claus's reindeer as the leading one.
   • Good job you don’t have kids, mate. You’d go mad this time of year with all the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers going on. 2019, Alison Roberts, Single Dad in Her Stocking, Harlequin, →ISBN:
   • The only buildings on the street across from the Yellow Panda were an abandoned warehouse and a lonely souvenir stand, also closed until tourist season, its carved Smokey the Bears and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers looking like lost Christmas decorations in the rain. 1997, Roger L[ichtenberg] Simon, The Lost Coast, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 194:
   • In the yards of the houses, the pink flamingos were eclipsed by huge plastic Santa Clauses and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers, their red noses tinting the shadows on the snow rose red, and on the roof ridges of every other house, Santa Claus and his sleigh had landed weeks earlier. 1989, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Buffalo Afternoon, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 513:
   • Window cling-ons are the same kind you see at Christmas time, with cute Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers and Frosty the Snow Mans on them. 2003, Tiffany Lambert, Restaurant Promotion and Publicity: For Just a Few Dollars a Day, Atlantic Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 98:
   • These days, you see more of those giant inflatable Frosty the Snowmen and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers. 2014, Greg Laurie, Red: The Color of Christmas, 15 Favorite Christmas Messages, Allen David Books, →ISBN, page 307:
   • Light posts, storefronts and other businesses were lined with garlands of silver, gold, green and red; as well as the occasional Santa Claus and more than a few Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeers. 2008, William Pepper, In the St. Nick of Time, Carnival of Glee Creations, →ISBN, page 10:

Forms

Coordinates

Dasher (Santa Claus's reindeer) · Vixen (Santa Claus's reindeer) · Comet (Santa Claus's reindeer) · Blitzen (Santa Claus's reindeer) · Donner (Santa Claus's reindeer) · Dancer (Santa Claus's reindeer) · Prancer (Santa Claus's reindeer) · Cupid (Santa Claus's reindeer)

Synonyms

Rudolph

Translations (22)

he רוּדוֹלְף אָדֹם הָאַף (the red-nosed reindeer) · es Rodolfo el reno (the red-nosed reindeer) · nb Reinsdyret Rudolf (the red-nosed reindeer) · vi Tuần lộc Rudolph Mũi đỏ (the red-nosed reindeer) · pt Rudolph (the red-nosed reindeer) · pl Rudolf Czerwononosy (the red-nosed reindeer) · nb Rudolf er rød på nesen (the red-nosed reindeer) · fa رودولف گوزن بینی قرمز (the red-nosed reindeer) · ko 빨간 코를 가진 순록 (the red-nosed reindeer) · pt a Rena do Nariz Vermelho (the red-nosed reindeer) · sv Rudolf med röda mulen (the red-nosed reindeer) · fi Petteri Punakuono (the red-nosed reindeer) · ja ルドルフ赤鼻のトナカイ (the red-nosed reindeer) · fa رودولف (the red-nosed reindeer) · ko 루돌프 (the red-nosed reindeer) · pt Rodolfão (the red-nosed reindeer) · cy Rwdolff y carw trwyn-goch (the red-nosed reindeer) · fr Rudolphe le renne au nez rouge (the red-nosed reindeer) · da Rudolf med den røde tud (the red-nosed reindeer) · cmn 紅鼻子馴鹿魯道夫 /红鼻子驯鹿鲁道夫 (the red-nosed reindeer) · pt Rodolfinho (the red-nosed reindeer) · it Rudolph la renna dal naso rosso (the red-nosed reindeer)