violet
noun
any chiefly low, stemless or leafy-stemmed plant of the genus Viola, having purple, blue, yellow, white, or variegated flowers.
violets
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pluralof violet.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The color palette is dominated by greens, blues and violets toward the east, marking the sun’s rise, and reds, oranges and golds to the west.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
A military band marches among flowerbeds of pansies and violets.
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
“I used to come to the Huntington with my mother when I was a child. She loved to garden, especially African violets, and she passed that love of plants and nature on to me.”
From New York Times ● May 8, 2024
Her poems are powerful and dangerous, like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
The sky is an aurora of reds, oranges, and violets, dotted with infinite batches of twinkling stars.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
