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colour definition
Overview
This page has 8 definitions of colour in English and Middle English. Colour is a noun, an adjective and verb. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
See also: color
English colour definition
Alternative forms
- color (U.S. spelling)
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file)
Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
Related terms
Verb
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
Translations
— see color
Derived terms
- accidental colour
- anticolour
- baulk colour
- becolour
- bicolour
- brass-colour
- child of colour
- colourable
- colourant
- colourate
- colour bar
- colourbearer
- colour-blind
- colourblind
- colourbound
- colourburst
- colourcast
- colour charge
- colour code
- colour-code
- colour-coded
- colour commentator
- colour-coordinate
- colour coordinate
- colour-coordinated
- colour coordinated
- colour coordination
- colour'd
- colour’d
- coloured
- Coloured
- coloureth
- colour-fast
- colourfast
- colour field painting
- colour force
- colourful
- colourfull
- colourific
- colourimeter
- colourimetre
- colourimetric
- colourimetry
- colour in
- colouring
- colour inside the lines
- colourise
- colouriser
- colourish
- colourism
- colourist
- colourize
- colourizer
- colour killer
- colourless
- colour light signal
- colourmaker
- colourman
- colourmap
- colourogenic
- colourologist
- colourology
- colourous
- colour outside the lines
- colour pencil
- colourphobe
- colourphobia
- colourphobic
- colourpoint
- colour-proof
- colour proud
- colour-proud
- colourpuncture
- colourpuncturist
- colour retention agent
- colour revolution
- colour scheme
- colour screw
- colour sergeant
- colours inside the lines
- colours outside the lines
- colourspace
- colour space
- colour supplement
- colour symbolism
- colour television
- colour triangle
- colourtype
- colour up
- colourway
- colour wheel
- colourwise
- colourwork
- coloury
- complementary colour
- concolour
- decolour
- decoloured
- eye colour
- false colour
- false-colour
- flesh colour
- Flesh Colour
- forecolour
- horse of a different colour
- in colour
- local colour
- man of colour
- miscolour
- monocolour
- multicolour
- neutral colour
- of colour
- off-colour
- off colour
- overcolour
- pair of colours
- people of colour
- person of colour
- primary colour
- primitive colour
- prismatic colour
- prismatic colours
- pseudocolour
- pseudocolouring
- recolour
- secondary colour
- self colour
- show one's true colours
- shows one's true colours
- skin colour
- technicolour
- tertiary colour
- tricolour
- troops the colour
- troops the colours
- troop the colour
- troop the colours
- type colour
- uncolour
- undercolour
- unicolour
- wine colour
- with flying colours
- woman of colour
Anagrams
Middle English colour definition
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
Pronunciation
Noun
colour (plural colours or coloures)
- colour, hue, shade
- pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
- method (literary or rhetorical)
- justification, explanation (often feigned)
Descendants
References
- “cǒlǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
| whit | grey, hor | blak |
| red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry; canevas |
| grasgrene | grene | |
| plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
| violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |
Old French colour definition
Noun
colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color