red light
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A warning light, especially as a traffic signal indicating stop.
noun
A denial to proceed a ruling out of any possibility.
Example Sentences
- "We ran three red lights on the way to the hospital."
- "Paddington [the GWR HQ] saw the red light, however, and the extension to Nantgarw was withdrawn on the G.W.R. agreeing "to lay down the narrow gauge [actually standard gauge as compared to broad gauge] from Didcot over the whole of their system in South Wales.""
- "Roxanne, you don't have to put on your red light."