colour
See also: color
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- color (U.S. spelling)
PronunciationEdit
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkɐɫɐ/
Audio (AU) (file)
NounEdit
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
AdjectiveEdit
colour (not comparable)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
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.
TranslationsEdit
— see color
Derived termsEdit
- accidental colour
- anticolour
- baulk colour
- becolour
- bicolour
- brass-colour
- child of colour
- colour bar
- colour charge
- colour code
- colour commentator
- colour coordinate
- colour coordinated
- colour coordination
- colour field painting
- colour force
- colour in
- colour inside the lines
- colour killer
- colour light signal
- colour outside the lines
- colour pencil
- colour proud
- colour retention agent
- colour revolution
- colour scheme
- colour screw
- colour sergeant
- colour space
- colour supplement
- colour symbolism
- colour television
- colour triangle
- colour up
- colour wheel
- colour-blind
- colour-code
- colour-coded
- colour-coordinate
- colour-coordinated
- colour-fast
- colour-proof
- colour-proud
- colourable
- colourant
- colourate
- colourbearer
- colourblind
- colourbound
- colourburst
- colourcast
- colour'd
- coloured
- Coloured
- coloureth
- colourfast
- colourful
- colourfull
- colourific
- colourimeter
- colourimetre
- colourimetric
- colourimetry
- colouring
- colourise
- colouriser
- colourish
- colourism
- colourist
- colourize
- colourizer
- colourless
- colourmaker
- colourman
- colourmap
- colourogenic
- colourologist
- colourology
- colourous
- colourphobe
- colourphobia
- colourphobic
- colourpoint
- colourpuncture
- colourpuncturist
- colours inside the lines
- colours outside the lines
- colourspace
- colourtype
- colourway
- colourwise
- colourwork
- coloury
- colour’d
- complementary colour
- concolour
- decolour
- decoloured
- eye colour
- false colour
- false-colour
- flesh colour
- Flesh Colour
- forecolour
- horse of a different colour
- hyperbolic 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
- troop the colour
- troop the colours
- troops the colour
- troops the colours
- type colour
- uncolour
- undercolour
- unicolour
- wine colour
- with flying colours
- woman of colour
AnagramsEdit
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
colour (plural colours or coloures)
- colour, hue, shade
- pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
- method (literary or rhetorical)
- justification, explanation (often feigned)
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
| 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 |
ReferencesEdit
- “cǒlǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color