red carpet

What does red carpet mean?

red carpet means "a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red carpet?

Close synonyms include red-carpet. 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 red carpet a common word?

red carpet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for red carpet come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.