hue
UK/hjuː/
More pronunciations (1)Fewer pronunciations
British/hjʉw/
hue noun: a color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
Noun (1)
hue (countable and uncountable, plural hues)
- A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvellous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 39–40
- The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
- In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.
- Character; aspect.
- This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
- Form; appearance; guise.
Noun (2)
hue (plural hues)
Proper noun capitalized: Hue
IPA/ˈhweɪ/
Hue
- A port city in central Vietnam.
- Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.
- Trouble had been brewing for some time, and it burst into the open in the ancient capital city of Hué on May 8, 1963. On that day 8,000 to 10,000 Buddhists marched in protest against a government order banning parades and the display of Buddhist flags on Buddha's birthday.[1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 60
- A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.
hue meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
hue in Tamil
- சாயல்
hue in Urdu
- بانگ, فام, غوغا, کسی رنگ کی جھلک, رنگ, شور
hue in Bengali
- রঙ, রং, বর্ণ
hue in Malayalam
- നിറം, വർണ്ണം, ഒച്ചപ്പാട്, ബഹളം
More languagesFewer languages
- hue in Kannada
- ಬಣ್ಣ, ವರ್ಣ, ಛಾಯೆ, ರಂಗು
- hue in Sanskrit
- रङ्ग raṅga
- hue in Persian
- فام fâm
Examples of hue in a sentence
- The relucent lake glittered, sparkling playfully, with the hues of dusk.
- This puts a completely different hue on the matter.
- Political colorists can be promiscuous in calling states purple, but my state is true to that hue.
Forms of hue
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hues |
| alternative form | hew |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Huế |
Origin of hue
From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).
From Old French hu or Old French heu, a hunting cry.
From Vietnamese Huế (化).
Words formed from hue
Phrases with hue
Words that rhyme with hue
Questions about hue
- What does hue mean?
- Hue means a color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
- What is hue in Tamil?
- Hue in Tamil is சாயல். See Hue meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is hue?
- Hue can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hue?
- Hue is pronounced /hjuː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of hue?
- The plural of hue is hues.
Words near hue in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hue (page history and authors); Hue (page history and authors); hue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hue (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hue (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hue (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hue (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.
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