lavender

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Any of a group of European plants, genus, Lavandula, of the mint family.
2. (countable, uncountable)A pale bluish purple colour, like that of the lavender flower.
3. (historical, uncountable)A kind of film stock used for creating positive prints from negatives as part of the process of duplicating the negatives.

adj

1. Having a pale purple colour.
2. Pertaining to LGBT people and rights.

   ““Now in here,” their guide, sweating dark tentacles into his tab collar, briefed them, “you are going to see the members of the third sex, the lavender crowd this city by the Bay is so justly famous for.”

   “My sother (significant other) and I have been together almost nineteen years. Exactly half of the usual wedding vows taken traditionally by non-lavender couples — for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, — have been characteristic of our relationship.”

3. Pertaining to lesbian feminism; opposing heterosexism.

verb

1. (transitive)To decorate or perfume with lavender.

   “Short shafts of dying sunlight mingled with the deepening grey, lavendering the horizon, and all nature seemed to hush as though waiting to welcome the night.”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)A female given name from English.

   “She wanted to give the child a unique, meaningful name; among those she and Linda liked, she said, were Laurel and Lavender. Or if it was a boy, perhaps Sage . “Why not Spinach or Cabbage?” Brian had scoffed.”

3. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Floyd County, Georgia, United States, named after a storekeeper.
4. (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Kittitas County, Washington, United States, named after John Lavender.
5. (countable, uncountable)A subzone of Kallang, Singapore.