RED CARPET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red carpet mean? 

• RED CARPET (noun)
  The noun RED CARPET has 1 sense:

1. a strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on

  Familiarity information: RED CARPET used as a noun is very rare.

• RED CARPET (adjective)
  The adjective RED CARPET has 1 sense:

1. special treatment or hospitality

  Familiarity information: RED CARPET used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED CARPET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A strip of red carpeting laid down for dignitaries to walk on

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("red carpet" is a kind of...):

carpet; carpeting; rug (floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile))

• RED CARPET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Special treatment or hospitality

Synonyms:

red-carpet; red carpet

Context example:

the maitre d' gave them the red-carpet treatment

Similar:

uncommon (not common or ordinarily encountered; unusually great in amount or remarkable in character or kind)

 Context examples 

In the center of the rich red carpet was a black and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)