lavender, lilac, lilac-colored
(adjective) of a pale purple color
lavender
(noun) a pale purple color
lavender
(noun) any of various Old World aromatic shrubs or subshrubs with usually mauve or blue flowers; widely cultivated
Source: WordNet® 3.1
lavender (countable and uncountable, plural lavenders)
Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
A pale purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
• (plant): common lavender
lavender (comparative more lavender, superlative most lavender)
Having a pale purple colour.
(politics) Pertaining to LGBT people and rights
(politics) Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
lavender (third-person singular simple present lavenders, present participle lavendering, simple past and past participle lavendered)
(transitive) To decorate or perfume with lavender.
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Lavender (plural Lavenders)
A surname.
A female given name from English.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Lavender is the 4583rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 7744 individuals. Lavender is most common among White (69.86%) and Black/African American (23.81%) individuals.
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Source: Wiktionary
Lav"en*der, n. Etym: [OE. lavendre, F. lavande, It. lavanda lavender, a washing, fr. L. lavare to wash; cf. It. lsavendola, LL. lavendula. So called because it was used in bathing and washing. See Lave. to wash, and cf. Lavender.]
1. (Bot.)
Definition: An aromatic plant of the genus Lavandula (L. vera), common in the south of Europe. It yields and oil used in medicine and perfumery. The Spike lavender (L. Spica) yields a coarser oil (oil of spike), used in the arts.
2. The pale, purplish color of lavender flowers, paler and more delicate than lilac. Lavender cotton (Bot.), a low, twiggy, aromatic shrub (Santolina Chamæcyparissus) of the Mediterranean region, formerly used as a vermifuge, etc., and still used to keep moths from wardrobes. Also called ground cypress.
– Lavender water, a perfume composed of alcohol, essential oil of lavender, essential oil of bergamot, and essence of ambergris.
– Sea lavender. (Bot.) See Marsh rosemary.
– To lay in lavender. (a) To lay away, as clothing, with sprigs of lavender. (b) To pawn. [Obs.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 June 2025
(noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); “communications is his major field of study”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
