What does red light mean?

red light means "a cautionary sign of danger". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for red light?

Close synonyms include warning light. 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 light a common word?

red light 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.

red light — meaning, pronunciation and 2 definitions

noun

2 sensesA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a cautionary sign of danger
Synonymswarning light
Broadervisual signal
Narroweridiot light
2.
the signal to stop
Broadertraffic light

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