Meanings
reds1
- pluralplural of red
Reds2
- pluralplural of Red
- informalpluralplural onlygovernmentSynonym of Communist Party in various contexts.
Synonyms: Communist Party in various contexts
- Any of several sports teams whose uniform is predominantly red, particularly
- historicalinformalpluralplural onlyhobbiesThe chariot-racing faction of the Roman circus and Constantinopolitan hippodrome that wore red.
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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.
2002, James Allan Stewart Evans, The Age of Justinian..., p. 38 - informalpluralplural onlyball gamesCincinnati Reds.
- informalpluralplural onlyball gamesLiverpool FC.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Communist Party in various contexts.
Origin
- Medieval GreekῬούσιοι“Reds”
- Latinrussātī“Reddish-Brown-Clads”
- EnglishReds
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 Medieval Greek Ῥούσιοι (Rhoúsioi, “Reds”).
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