Red Cross

Red Cross

1. An international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 193:

     ‘De Red Cross is doinʼ all dat kin be done otherwise fuh de sick and de ʼfflicted.’

2. The symbol of this organization.
3. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
4. A town in North Carolina.

• Red Crescent

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• “the Red Cross” (US) / “the Red Cross” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.