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carnation

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9
Pronunciation
/kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/(UK)
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/kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/(UK) · /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/(US)

Definition of carnation

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
  2. (countable, uncountable)A type of Eurasian plant widely cultivated for its flowers.
  3. (countable, uncountable)The type of flower they bear, originally flesh-coloured, but since hybridizing found in a variety of colours.
  4. (countable, uncountable)A rosy pink colour
    “And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses only bloom in summer; whereas the fine carnation of their cheeks is perennial as sunlight in the seventh heavens.”
  5. (archaic, countable, especially, uncountable)The pinkish colors used in art to render human face and flesh
  6. (countable, uncountable)A scarlet colour.

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Of a rosy pink or red colour.
  2. (archaic, not-comparable)Of a human flesh color.

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Etymology

From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a…

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From Middle French carnation (“flesh color, complexion”), either via Italian carnagione (“flesh color”) or directly from Late Latin carnātiō (“fleshiness”), from Latin carō (“flesh, meat”) + ātiō (“-ation”). As a flower and its color, possibly instead from corruption in French of coronation (“crowning, crowned thing”) under the influence of carnation, from the flower's supposed resemblance to a crown. By surface analysis, Latin carn- + -ate + -ion.

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