Crossword-Solution: PURPLE 6 letters, 83 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Purple	n.	A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.
Purple	n.	Cloth dyed a purple color, or a garment of such color; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple rode or mantle worn by Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity; as, to put on the imperial purple.
Purple	n.	Hence: Imperial sovereignty; royal rank, dignity, or favor; loosely and colloquially, any exalted station; great wealth.
Purple	n.	A cardinalate. See Cardinal.
Purple	n.	Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis) as, the banded purple (B. arthemis). See Illust. under Ursula.
Purple	n.	Any shell of the genus Purpura.
Purple	n.	See Purpura.
Purple	n.	A disease of wheat. Same as Earcockle.
Purple	a.	Exhibiting or possessing the color called purple, much esteemed for its richness and beauty; of a deep red, or red and blue color; as, a purple robe.
Purple	a.	Imperial; regal; -- so called from the color having been an emblem of imperial authority.
Purple	a.	Blood-red; bloody.
Purple	v. t.	To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as, hands purpled with blood.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
PURPLE	anagram	PULPER, RUPPEL

We have 83 clues for the answer “PURPLE”

Clue	Answers
Emblem of royalty	1 answer
Like Barney the Dinosaur	1 answer
Like Barney	1 answer
Lavender's color	1 answer
Lavender is similar to it	1 answer
Lavender color	1 answer
Imperial power	1 answer
Hendrix's "__ Haze"	1 answer
Flowery violet	1 answer
Florid prose descriptor	1 answer
Like Burgess's cow	1 answer
Emblem of high rank.	1 answer
Damson-colored	1 answer
Crayola's wild orchid, e.g.	1 answer
Colour symbolising nobility	1 answer
Colour of the angry	1 answer
Colour intermediate between red and blue	1 answer
Colour associated with imperial authority	1 answer
Color rarely born to	1 answer
Color of the rain in a Prince ballad	1 answer
Royal shade	1 answer
Colour – or ‘Color’ on film?	1 answer
tyrian	1 answer
of imperial status	1 answer
of a color intermediate between red and blue	1 answer
colour between red and blue	1 answer
ZUCCHETTO color/colour of bishop	1 answer
Violet or lavender	1 answer
Ube's color	1 answer
Sloe color	1 answer
Color on the bi flag	1 answer
Regal color	1 answer
Red-blue color	1 answer
Red and blue	1 answer
Prose color	1 answer
Prince's "__ Rain"	1 answer
Plum, for instance	1 answer
Lilac or violet	1 answer
Like bad bruises	1 answer
Like Share Bear and Tinky Winky	1 answer
Color of Barney the Dinosaur	1 answer
Color in an Alice Walker title	1 answer
Alice Walker title color	1 answer
A ___ Place for Dying	1 answer
Color of royalty	1 answer
"___ Rain" (Prince tune)	1 answer
"The Color ___"	1 answer
"Harold and the ___ Crayon" (popular children's book)	1 answer
Eggplant color	2 answers
Office of a Cardinal.	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

ZECMEA

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Sentences with PURPLE (5)

And he saw a youth approaching, Dressed in garments green and yellow, Coming through the purple twilight, Through the splendor of the sunset; Plumes of green bent o’er his forehead, And his hair was soft and golden.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

Here Love his golden shafts imploies, here lights His constant Lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels; not in the bought smile Of Harlots, loveless, joyless, unindeard, Casual fruition, nor in Court Amours Mixt Dance, or wanton Mask, or Midnight Bal, Or Serenate, which the starv’d Lover sings To his proud fair, best quitted with disdain.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Peacock and the Crane A PEACOCK spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, “I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings.” “True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.” Fine feathers don’t make fine birds.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

South of the apricot trees, cornering on the wheatfield, was Frank’s alfalfa, where myriads of white and yellow butterflies were always fluttering above the purple blossoms.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

And yet his fortune brings him little joy; For blind of seeing, clad in beggar’s weeds, For purple robes, and leaning on his staff, To a strange land he soon shall grope his way.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with PURPLE (3)

Do you know what I see in you now? The usual aura. A steady golden yellow, healthy and strong, with spikes of purple here and there. But when I do this. . . .” He rested a hand on my hip, and my whole body tensed up. That hand moved around my hip, slipping under my shirt to rest on the small of my back. My skin burned where he touched me, and the places that were untouched longed for that heat.. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydne…

Richelle Mead The Indigo Spell

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" --"Pagan that you are! what does that signify?""I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring…

Charlotte Bronte Shirley

Nonetheless, when it finally ended and the hairdressers left and Tess insisted upon pulling her to the mirror, Fire saw, and understood, that everyone had done the job well. The dress, deep shimmering purple and utterly simple in design, was so beautifully-cut and so clingy and well-fitting that Fire felt slightly naked. And her hair. She couldn’t follow what they’d done with her hair, braids thin as threads in some places, looped and wound through the thick sections that fel…

Kristin Cashore Fire

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 57 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).