Overview of noun magenta

The noun magenta has 2 senses

• magenta -- (a primary subtractive color for light; a dark purple-red color; the dye for magenta was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta)


• Magenta, Battle of Magenta -- (a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I)

Overview of adj magenta

The adj magenta has 1 sense

• magenta -- (of deep purplish red)