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Red Cross

Red Cross proper noun: an international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless.

red cross: an international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless
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Proper noun

Red Cross

  1. An international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless.
    • ‘De Red Cross is doinʼ all dat kin be done otherwise fuh de sick and de ʼfflicted.’1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 193
  2. The symbol of this organization.
  3. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
  4. A town in North Carolina.

Red Cross meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

Red Cross in Hindi

Red Cross
रेड क्रॉस reḍ krŏs

Red Cross in Tamil

செஞ்சிலுவைச்சங்கம்

Red Cross in Urdu

صلیب سرخ

Red Cross in Bengali

Red Cross
রেডক্রস reḍkros
More languagesFewer languages
Red Cross in Telugu
రెడ్క్రాస్ reḍkrās
Red Cross in Tagalog
Krus na Pula, Krus Roha
Red Cross in Arabic
اَلصَّلِيب اَلْأَحْمَر aṣ-ṣalīb al-ʔaḥmar
Red Cross in Malay
Palang Merah
Red Cross in Indonesian
Palang Merah
Red Cross in Persian
صلیب سرخ salib-e sorx
Red Cross in Thai
กาชาด gaa-châat
Red Cross in Vietnamese
Chữ thập đỏ
Red Cross in Myanmar
ကြက်ခြေနီ krakhkreni, ကြက်ခြေနီအသင်း krakhkrenia.sang:

Questions about Red Cross

What does Red Cross mean?
Red Cross means an international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless.
What is Red Cross in Hindi?
Red Cross in Hindi is रेड क्रॉस (reḍ krŏs). See Red Cross meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Red Cross?
Red Cross is a proper noun.

Words near Red Cross in the dictionary

  1. red cotton tree
  2. red cotton trees
  3. red cotton-tree
  4. red cotton-trees
  5. Red Crescent
  6. Red Cross
  7. red crossbill
  8. red crossbills
  9. red crowberry
  10. Red Crown
  11. Red Crystal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Red Cross (page history and authors); red cross (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); red cross (Urdu 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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