- 1[countable] a small wild or garden plant with purple or white flowers with a sweet smell that appear in spring
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- 2[uncountable] a blue-purple color dressed in violet
1 violet eyesIdioms
2a way of describing a very shy personSee violet in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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