Rudolph, The Red-nosed Reindeer - Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Oxford logo Toggle navigation Redeem Upgrade Help Sign in

• Dictionaries
  • Dictionaries home
  • English
  • American English
  • Academic
  • Collocations
  • German-English
• Grammar
  • Grammar home
  • Practical English Usage
  • Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)
• Word Lists
  • Word Lists home
  • My Word Lists
  • Topics
  • Recent additions
• Resources
  • Resources home
  • Text Checker

Sign in Dictionaries

• Dictionaries home
• English
• American English
• Academic
• Collocations
• German-English

Grammar

• Grammar home
• Practical English Usage
• Learn & Practise Grammar (Beta)

Word Lists

• Word Lists home
• My Word Lists
• Topics
• Recent additions

Resources

• Resources home
• Text Checker

Redeem Upgrade Help TOP English English American English Academic English Collocations Practical English Usage German-English English-German English American English Enter search text

Definition of Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer  /ˌruːdɒlf ðə ˌred nəʊzd ˈreɪndɪə(r)/  /ˌruːdɑːlf ðə ˌred nəʊzd ˈreɪndɪr/ jump to other results

1. a children's Christmas song written in 1949 about a reindeer (= type of deer) called Rudolph, who has a shiny red nose, and the other reindeer laugh at him because they think it looks ridiculous. Santa Claus chooses him to pull his sleigh on Christmas Eve

Check pronunciation: Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer

Nearby words

• rudimentary adjective
• rudiments noun
• Rudolph, the Red-nosed Reindeer
• rue verb
• rueful adjective

opt verb From the Word list Oxford 5000 C1 Oxford Learner's Dictionaries Word of the Day