lavender
Meanings
noun
- Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
- A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
- A kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.
adj
- Having a pale purple colour.
- Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.
- Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.
verb
- To decorate or perfume with lavender.
name
- A surname.
- A female given name from English.
- An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Georgia, United States, named after a storekeeper.
- An unincorporated community in Kittitas County, Washington, United States, named after John Lavender.
- A subzone of Kallang, Singapore.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Medieval Latin lavendulader. Old French lavendrebor. Middle English lavendre English lavender From Middle English lavendre, from Anglo-Norman lavendre (French lavande), from Medieval Latin lavendula, possibly from Latin lividus (“bluish”), but influenced by lavō (“to wash”) due to the use of lavender in washing clothes.
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