red-carpet

1. 1.

   special treatment or hospitality

   “the maitre d' gave them the red-carpet treatment”

   Synonymsred carpet

   Similaruncommon

Questions about red-carpet

What does red-carpet mean?

red-carpet means "special treatment or hospitality".

How many syllables are in red-carpet?

red-carpet has 3 syllables: red--car-pet. The stress falls on "red-".

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 "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.