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Tag: color words

other words for orange

8 Other Words for Orange

1 February 201729 January 2017Leave a comment

Did you know that the color orange was named for the fruit, and not the other way around? That historical quirk can make it difficult to find other words for orange. Languages other than English also use the same word to describe both the fruit and the color, and many orange pigments, such as gamboge, vary in intensity from yellow to brown.
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