colour

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)

  1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

  1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Derived terms

Verb

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

  1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Britain standard spelling of color.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuˈluːr/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

  1. colour, hue
  2. The colour of an aforementioned thing or region
  3. (heraldry) Heraldic colour
  4. A pigment, dye, or other instrument for colouring
  5. A literary or rhetorical method or technique
  6. A reasoning, justification, explanation (often a feigned one)

Descendants

References

See also

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

Old French

Noun

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

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color
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