<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>A color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.</li><li>Cloth or clothing of this hue, especially as formerly worn distinctively by persons of imperial, royal, or other high rank.</li><li>The rank or office of a cardinal.</li><li>The office of a bishop.</li><li>Imperial, regal, or princely rank or position.</li><li>Deep red; crimson.</li><li>Any of several nymphalid butterflies, as Basilarchia astyanax (red-spotted purple), having blackish wings spotted with red, or Basilarchia artemis (banded purple, or white admiral), having brown wings banded with white.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Of the color purple.</li><li>Imperial, regal, or princely.</li><li>Brilliant or showy.</li><li>Full of exaggerated literary devices and effects; marked by excessively ornate rhetoric: a purple passage in a novel.</li><li>Profane or shocking, as language.</li><li>Relating to or noting political or ideological diversity: purple politics; ideologically purple areas of the country.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with or without object) To make or become purple.</li></ul>