colour

See also:color

English

Alternative forms

• color(US)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation,Southern England)IPA^(key):/ˈkʌlə/

  • Audio(Southern England):

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• (Northern England)IPA^(key):/ˈkʊlə/
• (Scotland,Northern Ireland)IPA^(key):/ˈkʌləɹ/
• (Ireland)IPA^(key):/ˈkʊləɹ/
• (General Australian,New Zealand)IPA^(key):/ˈkɐlə/,[ˈkʰɐɫɐ]

  • Audio(General Australian):

    (file)

• Homophone:culler

Noun

colour(countableanduncountable,pluralcolours)(British spelling,Canadian spelling)

1. CommonwealthandIrelandstandard spelling ofcolor.

Adjective

colour(notcomparable)

1. CommonwealthandIrelandstandard spelling ofcolor.

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

colour(third-person singular simple presentcolours,present participlecolouring,simple past and past participlecoloured)

1. CommonwealthandIrelandstandard spelling ofcolor.

Translations

color—seecolor

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
• colourfast
• colour-fast
• 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
• colour space
• colourspace
• colour-struck
• colour supplement
• colour symbolism
• colour television
• colour triangle
• colour TV
• colourtype
• colour up
• 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

• courol,ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

BorrowedfromAnglo-Normancolur,fromLatincolor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/kuˈluːr/,/ˈkulur/

Noun

colour(pluralcoloursorcolours)

1. colour,hue,shade
2. pigment,dye(substance for colouring)
3. method(literaryorrhetorical)
4. justification,explanation(oftenfeigned)

Descendants

• English:color,colour
• Scots:colour

See also

Colorsin 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.”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007,retrieved2018-03-30.

Old French

Noun

colouroblique singular,f(oblique pluralcolours,nominative singularcolour,nominative pluralcolours)

1. (Anglo-Norman)Alternative form ofcolor