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red carpet

red carpet noun: a strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.

red carpet: a strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on
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Noun

red carpet (plural red carpets)

  1. A strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
    • I've been gunged on children's TV, hung out with some actors off that soap Dad used to watch, done a photoshoot for a major highstreet fashion outlet and now here we are on the red carpet, outside the cinema in Leicester Square […]2012, Simon Packham, The Bex Factor
    • This time, the actor was in uncomfortably touchy-feely form. First he sidled up behind Scarlett Johansson as she posed on the red carpet, kissed her, and slid his hand around her waist.2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London)
  2. (broadly, figuratively) VIP treatment.

red carpet meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

red carpet in Hindi

a strip of red carpet laid for a VIP
लाल कालीन lāl kālīn

red carpet in Tamil

செம்படாம்

red carpet in Bengali

a strip of red carpet laid for a VIP
লাল গালিচা lal galica

red carpet in Kannada

ಕೆಂಪು ರತ್ನಗಂಬಳಿ, ಕೆಂಪು ಹಾಸಿಗೆ
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red carpet in Arabic
سَجَّادَة حَمْرَاء sajjāda ḥamrāʔ
red carpet in Vietnamese
thảm đỏ

Forms of red carpet

pluralred carpets

Words formed from red carpet

Questions about red carpet

What does red carpet mean?
Red carpet means a strip of red carpet that is laid for a VIP to walk on.
What is red carpet in Hindi?
Red carpet in Hindi is लाल कालीन (lāl kālīn). See Red carpet meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is red carpet?
Red carpet is a noun.
What is the plural of red carpet?
The plural of red carpet is red carpets.

Words near red carpet in the dictionary

  1. red cardinal
  2. red cardinal flower
  3. red cardinal flowers
  4. red cardinals
  5. red cards
  6. red carpet
  7. red carpets
  8. red cars
  9. red caviar
  10. red cedar
  11. red cedars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: red carpet (page history and authors); red carpet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); red carpet (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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