redhead
noun
Showing redhead , the base form of “redheaded”.
Simple meaning
Someone who has red hair.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
rehdhedSay the bold part a little louder.
IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɹɛdhɛd
This word is pronounced essentially the same in American and British English, so one transcription covers both.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) is a standard way of writing speech sounds.
Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
Someone who has red hair
A person with red hair.
North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head
A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus).
A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: Someone who has red hair
Used this way, redhead is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use redhead
- “She is a redhead, and her bright hair always catches the light nicely.”
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