lilac

/'lailək/

Thân thiện

A lilac bush blooms with fragrant purple flowers in the garden.

Definition

1. Noun:

   • A type of flowering shrub or small tree: A plant belonging to the genus Syringa, known for its clusters of fragrant flowers.
   • A pale purple color: A light purple color, similar to the typical color of the flowers of this plant.

2. Adjective:

   • Having a pale purple color: Describing something that is the color of lilac flowers.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Plant):
  • The garden was filled with the sweet scent of lilac.
  • She planted a white lilac by the fence.
• Noun (Color):
  • She painted her room a soft lilac.
• Adjective:
  • She wore a beautiful lilac dress to the party.
  • The sky at dawn was a lovely lilac hue.

Advanced Usage

• "in lilac": Describing something that is in bloom with lilac flowers.
  • The path was beautiful in lilac.
• Used attributively to describe other items of this color.
  • lilac wallpaper, lilac ink

Variants and Related Words

• Lilac-colored (adj): Having the color of lilac. (A compound adjective)
• Syringa (n): The botanical genus name for lilac.

Synonyms

• Noun (Color): Lavender, mauve, violet.
• Noun (Plant): Common lilac, French lilac ().

Related Phrases

• Lilac time: A poetic phrase referring to the spring season when lilacs bloom.
  • It was lilac time, and the air was perfumed.

Idioms

• No direct common idioms feature the word "lilac" in isolation. The word is primarily used literally for the plant or color.

Học thuật

Noun

1. any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers

Adjective

1. of a pale purple color

Từ đồng nghĩa

• lavender
• lilac-colored