1 [U,C] a narrow strip of material, used to tie things or for decoration:
a present tied with yellow ribbon * lengths / pieces of velvet ribbon * She was wearing two blue silk ribbons in her hair.
2 [C] something that is long and narrow in shape:
The road was a ribbon of moonlight. * (BrE) Ribbon developments (= lines of buildings) extended along the main road.
3 [C] a ribbon in special colours, or tied in a special way, that is given to sb as a prize or as a military honour, or that is worn by sb to show that they belong to a particular political party
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4 [C] a long strip of material containing ink that you put into TYPEWRITERS and some computer printers
IDIOMS
cut / tear, etc. sth to ribbons to cut/tear, etc. sth very badly:
His coat was torn to ribbons by the barbed wire fence.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ribbon is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ribbon a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ribbon is tagged as noun.
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