Redhead
//ˈɹɛdˌhɛd// name, noun, slang
name, noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A person with red hair.
"I like redheads. Their mouths are like a drop of strawberry jam in a glass of milk."
- 2 black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck wordnet
- 3 A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
- 4 North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head wordnet
- 5 A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.
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- 6 someone who has red hair wordnet
- 7 Chinese red-headed centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans)
- 8 Red-headed bunting (Emberiza bruniceps).
- 9 Red-headed titi (Callicebus regulus).
- 10 Red-headed vulture (Sarcogyps calvus).
- 11 Red-headed woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus). informal
- 12 A kind of 800-watt lamp.
"Most [camera crews] carry two blondes and three redheads or their equivalents. Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces."
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname. countable, uncountable
- 2 A coastal suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples"I had three girlfriends: the first was a blonde, the second a brunette, and the third a redhead."
Etymology
Bahuvrihi compound of red + head.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.