Violet Definition
vīə-lĭt
violets
noun
violets
Any of a genus (Viola) of plants of the violet family, having white, blue, purple, or yellow irregular flowers with short spurs.
Webster's New World
Any of various similar plants, as the African violet, or their flowers.
Webster's New World
The hue of the short-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 380 to 420 nanometers; any of a group of colors, reddish-blue in hue, that may vary in lightness and saturation.
American Heritage
The flower of any of these plants.
Webster's New World
Any of various low-growing herbs of the genus Viola, having short-spurred, irregular flowers that are characteristically purplish-blue but sometimes yellow or white.
American Heritage
pronoun
A female given name.
Wiktionary
adjective
Designating a family (Violaceae, order Violales) of temperate and tropical dicotyledonous plants having five-parted flowers, a one-celled ovary, and a three-valved fruit capsule, including the pansies.
Webster's New World
Of the color violet.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Violet
Noun
Singular:
violet
Plural:
violetsOrigin of Violet
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Middle English from Old French violete diminutive of viole from Latin viola viola2
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Middle English from Old French violete diminutive of viole from Latin viola viola2
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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A 19th century flower name from violet, sometimes as an anglicisation of the earlier French Violette.
From Wiktionary
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From Old French violette, from Latin viola (“violet")
From Wiktionary
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