Purple meaning

a purple color or pigment

(in ancient Rome) position of imperial status

“he was born to the purple”

(Roman Catholic Church) official dress of a cardinal; so named after the Tyrial purple color of the robes

become purple

color purple

of a color intermediate between red and blue

excessively elaborate or showily expressed

“a writer of empurpled literature”

“many purple passages”

belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler

“golden age of imperial splendor”

“purple tyrant”