Reds

nounproper nounattested in dialogue

Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.

noun

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Also a form of Redplural of Red

Etymology

In reference to the ancient Roman and medieval Byzantine racing faction, a calque of Latin russātī (“Reddish-Brown-Clads”) or factio russata (“the reddish-brown-clad faction”) and Byzantine Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).

proper noun

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informalSynonym of Communist Party in various contexts.
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historicalAny of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly The chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red.
Gibbon's successors had alternative suggestions, the most persistent of which has been that the Blues were supporters of religious orthodoxy and the Greens of Monophysitism. According to this view, the emperor Anastasius, whose Monophysitism was notorious, should have been a Green, though contemporary evidence makes him a Red.
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informalAny of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly Cincinnati Reds.
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informalAny of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly Liverpool FC.

Redhead · A surname.redneck · A poor, rural, usually white, person from the Southern United…redo · To do again.

Reds · Synonym of Communist Party in various contexts.

reduce · To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity…reduced · Made smaller or less; having undergone reduction.reducing · That causes reduction.

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