red deer
noun
: elk sense 1b —used for one of the Old World
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Grouse and red deer, in season, comes from Balmoral, along with pheasant and partridge from Sandringham, and more pheasant from Windsor, too. 
Tom Parker Bowles, Town & Country, 15 May 2022 That’s unusual in the UK, where wild boar and red deer seem to have made up a more significant proportion of Mesolithic people’s diets. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022 Horses, ibex, reindeer, red deer, bison and chamois are prominent among the animals, which include just one or two possibly human forms. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022 Outrageous headdresses replaced by the distant antlers of the estate’s red deer. Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022 The bones of red deer, roe deer, and boar were made into wind instruments and decorative objects. Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2021 Once a day time color photo was turned in, DNR officials recognized it as a red deer. Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021 The deer, which appeared to be a young red deer doe, was exhausted by the time it was brought onto the boat by Bowditch and his charter guest Morgan Lloyd. People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2021 Per the Guardian’s Severin Carrell, the carvings depict two male red deer with full antlers and several other animals believed to be young deer. Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021 See More
Tom Parker Bowles, Town & Country, 15 May 2022 That’s unusual in the UK, where wild boar and red deer seem to have made up a more significant proportion of Mesolithic people’s diets. Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 May 2022 Horses, ibex, reindeer, red deer, bison and chamois are prominent among the animals, which include just one or two possibly human forms. Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2022 Outrageous headdresses replaced by the distant antlers of the estate’s red deer. Vogue, 29 Mar. 2022 The bones of red deer, roe deer, and boar were made into wind instruments and decorative objects. Nick Squires, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2021 Once a day time color photo was turned in, DNR officials recognized it as a red deer. Parish Howard, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021 The deer, which appeared to be a young red deer doe, was exhausted by the time it was brought onto the boat by Bowditch and his charter guest Morgan Lloyd. People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 23 Aug. 2021 Per the Guardian’s Severin Carrell, the carvings depict two male red deer with full antlers and several other animals believed to be young deer. Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
Geographical Definition
Red Deer
geographical name
1
river 385 miles (620 kilometers) long in southern Alberta, Canada, flowing east and southeast into the South Saskatchewan River
2
city in south central Alberta, Canada, on the Red Deer River south of Edmonton population 90,564