orange

Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

Adjective

  1. Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

    Antonyms: nonorange

Origin

Etymology tree ▲ Italian melaranciacalq. Old French Orengeinflu. ▲ Old Occitan auranjainflu. Old French pomme d'orenge Old French orenge Middle French orangebor. Middle English orenge English orange Inherited from Middle English orenge, orange, from Old French pome orenge (“fruit orange”), influenced by the place name Orange (which is from Gaulish and unrelated to the word for the fruit and colour) and by Old Occitan auranja and calqued from Old Italian melarancio, melarancia, compound of mela (“apple”) and un'arancia (“an orange”), from Arabic نَارَنْج (nāranj), from Early Classical Persian نَارَنْگْ (nārang), from Sanskrit नारङ्ग (nāraṅga, “orange tree”), ultimately from Dravidian. Compare Tamil நாரங்காய் (nāraṅkāy), compound of நாரம் (nāram, “water”) and காய் (kāy, “fruit”); also Telugu నారంగము, నారింజ (nāraṅgamu, nāriñja), Malayalam നാരങ്ങ (nāraṅṅa), Kannada ನಾರಂಗಿ (nāraṅgi))....

Forms

oranger more orange orangest most orange aurange oreche orenche orendge oreng oringe orrendge orrenge orring orringe orryge orrynge urring

Derived

nonorange orange baboon tarantula orangeberry orange bitey thing orange card orangecello Orange Clown orange drummer orange dwarf orange flag orange foxtail orange Hokkaido Orangeism orangeite orangelike orangelo orangely orange man bad orangeness orange ochre orangequit Orange Shirt Day orange site orange-spotted roach

Noun

  1. An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
  2. Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.

    1. (countable) Specifically, a sweet orange or Citrus sinensis.

  3. The colour of a ripe fruit of an orange tree, midway between red and yellow.

    Synonyms: yellow-red

  4. Various drinks:
    • “What you drinking?” “Orange and soda will go down nicely, thanks.” “Pint?” “Sure.” Andy headed for the bar, stopping along the way to kiss Shaunna and check she and Kris were OK for a drink. “Everything all right?”...
    • I ran out into the street and around the block, searching everywhere, and finally burst into O'Dowd's pub around the corner to see Thomas sitting at the bar drinking orange and eating a bag of crisps with two old men. -...
    • It transpired this lad was drinking orange and faculties were keen. There were one or two verbal exchanges, then I followed him into the car park. He said to the doorman, 'I won't be long.' He easily knocked me to the...

    1. An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured cordial.

    2. An orange-coloured and orange-flavoured soft drink.

    3. (uncommon) Orange juice.

  5. A rarely-used nontraditional tincture found in Catalan, South African, and French municipal heraldry.
  6. An orange-coloured roundel.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:orange.

Forms

oranges aurange oreche orenche orendge oreng oringe orrendge orrenge orring orringe orryge orrynge urring

Synonyms

amber coral ginger gold golden brown orange topaz

Hypernyms

citrus fruit color hue pigment

Related

citrus fruit red yellow green blue violet white

Derived

acridine orange African cherry orange Alpine grassland orange bergamot orange bitter orange blaze orange blood orange blorange bog orange box orange burnt orange cadmium orange calamondin orange cherry orange China orange chrome orange citrange clockwork orange coolie orange Cox's Orange Pippin direct orange East Orange emergency orange green orange

Verb

  1. To colour orange.
    • It is this composition which reaches a colourist perfection in Le Bonheur with the complementarity of violet, purple and oranged gold - 1986, Gilles Deleuze, Cinema: The movement-image, page 118:
    • Jeff winked his eyes sleepily open and looked out into the cool flush of early morning. The east was oranged over with daybreak. - 1987, Harold Keith, Rifles for Watie, page 256:
    • I looked at him through my binoculars, his little lips oranged with Cheeto dust. - 2009, Suzanne Crowley, The Very Ordered Existence of Merilee Marvelous, page 117:
  2. To become orange.
    • Cranes in the distance against the background of the slowly oranging sky - 2007, Terézia Mora, Day in day out, page 296:
    • It will be followed by a disappearance of the cash I had hidden in a sealed envelope behind the oranging Modigliani print over the living room couch. - 2008, Wanda Coleman, Jazz & twelve o'clock tales: new stories, page...
    • "What about his eyes?" / "Nothing. No oranging at all, from what I could see. - 2010, Justin Cronin, The Passage, page 330:

Forms

oranges oranging oranged aurange oreche orenche orendge oreng oringe orrendge orrenge orring orringe orryge orrynge urring

Related

citrus clementine Cointreau curaçao mandarin marmalade murcott naartjie ortanique pomander satsuma satsuma mandarin satsuma tangerine secondary colour tangerine triple sec zest