red deer

Questions about red deer

What does red deer mean?

red deer means "common deer of temperate Europe and Asia".

What is another word for red deer?

Close synonyms include elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus. 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 deer a common word?

red deer 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.