Neoned

Part of speech: adjective, verb

Definitions

1. Illuminated or decorated with brightly glowing electric tubes that emit colored light, typically for advertising or artistic display purposes
2. Characterized by the presence of brightly colored electric tubes that produce light, often used for visual effects in signage or artistic presentations
3. Describing an object or area that is enhanced with luminous electric tubes producing vibrant colors, usually intended for aesthetics or promotional use

Etymology: "Neoned" is simply the past participle or adjective formed from "neon" with the "-ed" ending, so its meaning follows directly from the noun. "Neon" comes from Greek "neon," the neuter form of "neos," meaning "new," and it was named in 1898 by the British chemists William Ramsay and Morris Travers, who discovered the gas that year in London. They chose the name because it was a newly identified element. The gas itself gave the word its modern sense. When an electric current passes through neon in a sealed glass tube, it glows with a bright reddish-orange light, and the glowing tubes became the signs and displays that now define the word. Attaching "-ed" to "neon" turns the element's name into a description of anything fitted with such tubes, which is why the word is used for a lit-up storefront or a brightly signed street.