MAGENTAS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Adjective (satellite)

of deep purplish red

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Noun

a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

Meaning 3

Part of speech: Noun

a primary subtractive color for light

Example: a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta