orange
- Top 3000
Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A round fruit with a thick skin and sweet juicy parts inside, grown in warm countries.
Peel the orange over a plate or the juice drips everywhere.
I drink a glass of fresh orange juice every morning.
These oranges are too sour, so put them in a cake.
Common collocations: peel an orange · orange juice · a slice of orange · orange peel · freshly squeezed orange
Sense 2
- adjective
- A1
Having the strong warm colour that you get when you mix red and yellow.
He was wearing an orange jacket so drivers could see him.
The evening sky turned a deep orange above the hills.
Do you have these shoes in orange or only in brown?
Common collocations: bright orange · dark orange · orange light · orange paint · turn orange
Part of: Colours, Appearance
Forms
- plural
- oranges