redhead
/ˈɹɛdˌhɛd/
redhead noun: a person with red hair.
Noun
redhead (plural redheads)
- A person with red hair.
- I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk.2007, Matthew Weiner, “Red in the Face”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Roger Sterling
- A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
- A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
- Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)
- Red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps).
- Red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus).
- Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus).
- Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).
- A kind of 800-watt lamp.
- Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63
Proper noun capitalized: Redhead
Redhead (countable and uncountable, plural Redheads)
- A surname.
- A coastal suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
redhead meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Bengali
redhead in Hindi
- रेडहेड
redhead in Tamil
- சிவப்பு நிற முடியுள்ளவன், ள், செம்பட்டைத் தலை
redhead in Marathi
- रेडहेड
redhead in Bengali
- লাল চুত্তয়ালা লোক
More languagesFewer languages
- redhead in Telugu
- రెడ్హెడ్
- redhead in Kannada
- ಕೆಂದಲೆ, ಕೆಂಚದಲೆ, ಕೆಂಪುತಲೆ, ಕೆಂಪುದಲೆ
- redhead in Punjabi
- ਰੈੱਡਹੈੱਡ
- redhead in Gujarati
- રેડહેડ
- redhead in Nepali
- रेडहेड
- redhead in Vietnamese
- người tóc đỏ
Examples of redhead in a sentence
- Brownheads or brunettes use a darker red than blondes and redheads.
- She famously wrote a book where a redhead plays second fiddle to a magical Englishman.
- Warm hair would include, honey blonds, redheads, auburn or chestnut brunettes.
Synonyms of redhead
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Forms of redhead
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | redheads |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Redheads |
Origin of redhead
Bahuvrihi compound of red + head.
Words formed from redhead
Words that rhyme with redhead
Questions about redhead
- What does redhead mean?
- Redhead means a person with red hair.
- What is redhead in Hindi?
- Redhead in Hindi is रेडहेड. See Redhead meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is redhead?
- Redhead can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce redhead?
- Redhead is pronounced /ˈɹɛdˌhɛd/.
- What is the plural of redhead?
- The plural of redhead is redheads.
Words near redhead in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: redhead (page history and authors); Redhead (page history and authors); redhead (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redhead (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redhead (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redhead (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redhead (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redhead (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); redhead (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redhead (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); redhead (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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