magenta
(adjective) of deep purplish red
Magenta, Battle of Magenta
(noun) a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
magenta
(noun) a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta
Source: WordNet® 3.1
magenta (countable and uncountable, plural magentas)
A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.
• fuchsia
• fuchsine
magenta (comparative more magenta, superlative most magenta)
having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
• gateman, magnate, nametag
Magenta
A town in Northern Italy, site of the Battle of Magenta after which the color magenta was named.
• gateman, magnate, nametag
Source: Wiktionary
Ma*gen"ta, n. (Chem.)
Definition: An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseĂŻne, etc.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 May 2025
(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
