colour

See also: color

English

Alternative forms

• color (U.S. spelling)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɐlɜ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐlə/, [ˈkʰɐɫɐ]

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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Homophone: culler

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, India, Jamaica, Belize, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Trididad & Tobago, Singapore, Barbados, Bahamas, Grandada, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grendadines, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Guyana, and Fiji standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, India, Jamaica, Belize, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Trididad & Tobago, Singapore, Barbados, Bahamas, Grandada, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grendadines, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Guyana, and Fiji standard spelling of color.

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.

Translations

color — see color

Derived terms

• accidental colour
• anticolour
• baulk colour
• becolour
• bicolour
• brass-colour
• child of colour
• colourable
• 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
• Coloured
• coloured
• coloureth
• colourfast
• colour-fast
• 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
• colour of someone's money
• 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
• colour space
• colourspace
• colour supplement
• colour symbolism
• colour television
• colour triangle
• colourtype
• colour up
• colourway
• colour wheel
• colourwise
• colourwork
• coloury
• colour’d
• complementary colour
• concolour
• costly colours
• decolour
• decoloured
• deep colour
• eye colour
• false colour
• false-colour
• field colours
• Flesh Colour
• flesh colour
• forecolour
• high colour
• 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
• 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
• 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

• courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or colours)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

Descendants

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

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 2018-03-30.

Old French

Noun

colour oblique singular, f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color