colour
See also: color
English
Alternative forms
Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Related terms
Verb
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Translations
color — see color
Derived terms
- accidental colour
- anticolour
- baulk colour
- becolour
- bicolour
- bodycolour
- brass-colour
- child of colour
- colourability
- colourable
- colourably
- colourant
- colourate
- colour bar
- colourbearer
- colourblind, colour-blind
- colourbound
- colourburst
- colourcast
- colour charge
- colour-code, colour code
- colour-coded, colour coded
- colour commentator
- colour-coordinate, colour coordinate
- colour-coordinated, colour coordinated
- colour coordination
- colour'd, colour’d
- coloured
- Coloured
- colourer
- coloureth
- colour-fast
- colourfast
- colour field
- colour field painting
- colour force
- colourful
- colourfull
- colourific
- colourimeter
- colourimetre
- colourimetric
- colourimetry
- colour in
- colouring
- colour inside the lines
- colourisation
- colourise
- colouriser
- colourish
- colourism
- colourist
- colouristic
- colourization
- colourize
- colourizer
- colour killer
- colourless
- colour light signal
- colourmaker
- colourman
- colourmap
- colour of someone's money
- colourogenic
- colourologist
- colourology
- colourous
- colour outside the lines
- colour pencil
- colourphobe
- colourphobia
- colourphobic
- colour pigeon
- 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-struck
- colour supplement
- colour symbolism
- colour television
- colour triangle
- colour TV
- colourtype
- colour up
- colourwash
- colourway
- colour wheel
- colourwise
- colourwork
- coloury
- complementary colour
- concolour
- costly colours
- decolour
- decoloured
- deep colour
- discolour
- encolour
- eye colour
- false-colour, false colour
- field colours
- Flesh Colour
- flesh colour
- forecolour
- high colour
- horse of a different colour
- hyperbolic colour
- hypercolour
- in colour
- local colour
- man of colour
- miscolour
- monocolour
- multicolour
- multicolours
- neutral colour
- of colour
- off colour
- off-colour
- of the colours
- overcolour
- pair of colours
- people of colour
- person of colour
- primary colour
- primitive colour
- prismatic colour
- prismatic colours
- process colour
- pseudocolour
- pseudocolouring
- R-colour
- recolour
- secondary colour
- self colour
- serve with the colours
- show colour
- show one's true colours
- shows one's true colours
- skin colour
- spot colour
- technicolour
- tertiary colour
- topcolour
- tricolour
- troops the colour
- troops the colours
- troop the colour
- troop the colours
- type colour
- uncolour
- undercolour
- unicolour
- watercolour
- what colour is your Bugatti
- wine colour
- with flying colours
- woman of colour
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/
Noun
colour (plural colours or colours)
- colour, hue, shade
- pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
- method (literary or rhetorical)
- justification, explanation (often feigned)
Descendants
See also
| whit | grey, hor | blak |
| red; cremesyn, gernet | citrine, aumbre; broun, tawne | yelow, dorry, gul; canevas |
| grasgrene | grene | |
| plunket; ewage | asure, livid | blewe, blo, pers |
| violet; inde | rose, murrey; purpel, purpur | claret |
References
- “cǒlǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 March 2018.
Old French
Noun
colour oblique singular, f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of color