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hue

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
6
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/hjuː/ (UK)
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/hjuː/ (UK) · [ç(j)u̟ː] (UK) · /hju/ (US) · [ç(j)u] (US) · /ju/ (US) · /hjʉː/ · [ç(j)ʉː] · /hɪu̯/ · /ˈhweɪ/

Definition of hue

7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A color, or shade of color; tint; dye.
  2. (countable, uncountable)The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
    “In digital arts, HSV color uses hue together with saturation and value.”
  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Character; aspect.
    “This puts a completely different hue on the matter.”
  4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Form; appearance; guise.
  5. (obsolete)A shout or cry.

name

  1. A port city in central Vietnam.
    “Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.”
    “Trouble had been brewing for some time, and it burst into the open in the ancient capital city of Hué on May 8, 1963. On that day 8,000 to 10,000 Buddhists marched in protest against a government order banning parades and the display of Buddhist flags on Buddha's birthday.”
  2. A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.

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Etymology

From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance;…

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From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīew (“appearance, form, species, kind; apparition; hue, color; beauty; figure of speech”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiwi, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją (“hue, form, shape, appearance; mildew”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- (“skin, colour of the skin”) or *ḱey- (“grey, dark shade”). Cognate with Swedish hy (“complexion, skin”), Norwegian hy (“fluff, mold, skin”), Icelandic hégómi (“vanity”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍅𐌹 (hiwi, “form, show, appearance”). Compare also Sanskrit छवि (chavi, “cuticle, skin, hide; beauty, splendour”); Irish ceo (“fog”), Tocharian B kwele (“black, dark grey”), Lithuanian šývas (“light grey”), Albanian thinjë (“grey”), Sanskrit श्याव (śyāvá, “brown”).

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