colored

Adjective

 * 1)  Having a color.
 * 2) Having a particular color or kind of color.
 * 3) Having prominent colors; colorful.
 * 4) Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
 * 5)  Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
 * 6)  Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian).
 * 7)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1) Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
 * 2)  Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
 * 3)  Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian).
 * 4)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1)  Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
 * 2)  Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian).
 * 3)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1)  Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian).
 * 2)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1)  Designated for use by colored people.
 * 1)  Designated for use by colored people.

Usage notes
Referring to people—in 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 75 general population respondents who identified as “mixed race” and one who did not, none found the term “coloured” offensive. Out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, 11 found the term “coloured” offensive.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُلَوَّن
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto: kolora
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: tinto
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: karvalliin
 * Latin: colōrātus
 * Maori: whaikano
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: farvet
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ფერადი
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: karvalliin
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: colorido/pintado de
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: kulørt
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , en couleur
 * Galician: colorido
 * Georgian: ფერადი
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:, élénk színű
 * Ingrian: karvalliin, kirjava
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: plin de culoare, viu colorat
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, різнокольоро́вий


 * Danish: farvet
 * Finnish: värittynyt
 * French: ,
 * Polish: podkolorowany, ubarwiony
 * Swedish: ,


 * Bulgarian: цветнокож
 * Danish: farvet
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: de cor
 * German:
 * Hungarian: színes bőrű
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: de culoare
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: de color
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: da màu


 * Afrikaans:
 * Danish: farvet
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Xhosa:
 * Zulu:


 * Finnish:


 * Ido:
 * Persian:
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1)  A colored article of clothing.
 * 2)  A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
 * 3)  A colored (nonwhite) person.
 * 1)  A colored (nonwhite) person.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: farvet
 * Finnish:
 * French: personne de couleur
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian: színes bőrű,
 * Japanese: 有色人種
 * Korean:
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: värilliset
 * French:
 * Hungarian: színes (ruha)