- [uncountable, countable] the colour that is produced when you mix red and white together
- She was dressed in pink.
- She frowned as her cheeks flushed a light shade of pink.
- The bedroom was decorated in pale pinks.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- glow
- go
- grow
- …
- fluorescent
- hot
- baby
- …
- with
- [countable] a garden plant with pink, red or white flowers that have a sweet smell
Word Originnoun sense 1 mid 17th cent.: from pink (the plant), the early use of the adjective being to describe the colour of the flowers of this plant. noun sense 2 late 16th cent.: perhaps short for pink eye, literally ‘small or half-shut eye’; compare with the synonymous French word oeillet, literally ‘little eye’.
Idioms
See pink in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryin the pink
- (old-fashioned, informal) in good health
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