Word.ws English Dictionary

crimsons

crimsons is the plural of crimson.

crimsons is the third-person singular simple present indicative of crimson.

Meaning of crimson

Noun

crimson (countable and uncountable, plural crimsons)

  1. A deep, slightly bluish red.
    • To my horror I perceived that the yellow blossoms were all dabbled with crimson.1904 January 30, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Priory School”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC

See all 5 meanings of crimson

Phrases with crimsons

Questions about crimsons

What is crimsons the plural of?
Crimsons is the plural of crimson.

Words near crimsons in the dictionary

  1. crimsoneth
  2. crimsoning
  3. crimsonish
  4. crimsonly
  5. crimsonness
  6. crimsons
  7. crimsonwing
  8. crimsonwings
  9. crimsony
  10. crin
  11. crinal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crimsons (page history and authors); crimson (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “crimsons.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/crimsons. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.