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yellow [adjective] (COLOUR)

having the colour of butter or the middle part of an egg

US

/ˈjel.oʊ/

UK

/ˈjel.əʊ/

زرد

مثال:

She was dressed in yellow.

او لباس زرد پوشیده بود.

Oxford Essential Dictionary

yellow

adjective
with the colour of a lemon or of butter:
She was wearing a yellow shirt.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

yellow

I. yel‧low¹ S2 W3 /ˈjeləʊ $ -loʊ/ BrE AmE adjective
[Language: Old English; Origin: geolu]
1. having the colour of butter or the middle part of an egg:
yellow flowers ⇨ ↑chrome yellow, ⇨ lemon yellow at ↑lemon², ⇨ primrose yellow at ↑primrose(2)
2. not polite an offensive way of describing the skin colour of people from parts of Asia
3. (also yellow-bellied) informal not brave SYN cowardly

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

yellow

yel·low [yellow yellows yellowed yellowing yellower yellowest] adjective, noun, verb [ˈjeləʊ] [ˈjeloʊ]

adjective (yel·lower, yel·lowest)
1. having the colour of lemons or butter
• pale yellow flowers

• a bright yellow waterproof jacket

2. (taboo) an offensive word used to describe the light brown skin of people from some E Asian countries

3. (informal, disapproving) easily frightened
Syn: cowardly
Word Origin:
Old English geolu, geolo, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch geel and German gelb, also to gold.
Example Bank:
• Her teeth were rather yellow.
• She wore a pale yellow dress.

Derived Word: yellowness

noun uncountable, countable
the colour of lemons or butter
• She was dressed in yellow.
• the reds and yellows of the trees
Word Origin:

Old English geolu, geolo, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch geel and German gelb, also to gold.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

yellow / ˈjel.əʊ / / -oʊ / adjective (COLOUR)

A1 of a colour like that of a lemon or gold or the sun:

a bright yellow flower/T-shirt

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

yellow

/jeloʊ/
(yellows, yellowing, yellowed)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

1.
Something that is yellow is the colour of lemons, butter, or the middle part of an egg.
The walls have been painted bright yellow...
COLOUR

2.
If something yellows, it becomes yellow in colour, often because it is old.
The flesh of his cheeks seemed to have yellowed...
She sat scanning the yellowing pages.
VERB: V, V-ing

Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's Dictionary

¹yel·low /ˈjɛloʊ/ adj yel·low·er; -est [or more ~; most ~]
1 : having the color of the sun or of ripe lemons
• a yellow car
• The raincoat was yellow.
2 informal : afraid in a way that makes you unable to do what is right or expected : cowardly
• He was too yellow to stand up and fight.
3 always used before a noun : containing news that is meant to shock people and that is not true or is only partly true
• yellow journalism