orange

1. 1.

   round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees

   Broadercitrus

   Narrowertemple orangebitter orangesweet orange

   Partsorange peel
2. 2.

   orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow

   Synonymsorangeness

   Broaderchromatic color

   Narrowerreddish orange
3. 3.

   any citrus tree bearing oranges

   Synonymsorange tree

   Broadercitrus

   Narrowersour orangebergamotsweet orangetemple orange

   Part ofgenus Citrus
4. 4.

   any pigment producing the orange color

   Broaderpigment
5. 5.

   a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean

   SynonymsOrange River

   Broaderriver

   Part ofSouth Africa

1. 1.

   of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange

   Synonymsorangish

   Similarchromatic

Other forms of orange

plural

oranges·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orange

What does orange mean?

orange means "round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orange?

orange has 2 syllables: o-range. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹəndʒ/.

What is another word for orange?

Close synonyms include orangeness, orange tree, Orange River, orangish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orange a common word?

orange is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.