Meaning

9 senses
  1. A person with red hair.

    Rotkopf, Rotschopf, Rothaariger

    ры́жийrýžij, ры́жаяrýžaja, рыжеволо́сыйryževolósyj

    someone who has red hair

  2. A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.

    Rotkopfente

    North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head

  3. A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.

  4. Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)

  5. Red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps).

  6. Red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus).

  7. Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus).

  8. (informal)Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).

    black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck

  9. A kind of 800-watt lamp.

Examples

22 sentences
  1. Tom is a redhead, isn't he?

    Том правда рудий? — deniko

  2. Tom likes redheads.

    Том любить рудих. — deniko

    ruТом любит рыжих. — sharptoothed

    deTom mag Rothaarige. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Tom is a redhead.

  4. Do you know any redheads?

  5. Are you a real redhead?

    deHast du natürlich rote Haare? — Waldelfe

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
red-haired person:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
red-haired person:
Aythya americana:

Origin

Bahuvrihi compound of red + head.

Bahuvrihi compound of red + head.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: redheads
Singularredhead
Pluralredheads

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head:Aythya americana
  • someone who has red hair:redheaderred-headercarrottop
  • black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck:redheaded woodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalus

Word family

6 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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