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голубо́й — meaning in English

goluboy

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English meaning

  • azure noun A bright blue color, like a clear sky.
  • blue adjective Having the colour of a clear daytime sky.
  • cyan noun An additive secondary colour midway between green and blue, evoked by wavelengths between ~490 and ~520 nm.
  • Gay adj Homosexual; romantically or sexually attracted to people of the same sex.
  • poof intj Used to represent a sudden small explosion or a magical vanishing.
  • queer adj Relating to a sexual orientation or gender identity that isn't exclusively heterosexual or cisgender; used both as a reclaimed identity term and, historically, as a slur.

Senses

голубо́й is used for these senses in English:

  • azure Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.
  • blue (particle physics) Having a colour charge of blue.
  • blue Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in colour.
  • cyan Of the colour cyan.
  • gay (colloquial) Not heterosexual, not allosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.
  • gay (now, _, chiefly, in plural) A homosexual, especially a male homosexual.
  • light blue A pale blue colour: sky blue or similar.
  • poof (UK, Irish, Commonwealth, derogatory, colloquial) A gay man; especially one who is effeminate.

azure — full definition

  1. noun A bright blue color, like a clear sky.
  2. adj Of a bright, clear blue color.

blue — full definition

  1. adjective Having the colour of a clear daytime sky.
  2. adjective Sad or depressed.
  3. noun The colour itself, between green and violet on the spectrum.
  4. noun A member of a police force, sports team, or political party associated with the colour blue (informal, often plural as "blues").

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