Colour
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English
Alternative spelling
- color (US)
Etymology
From Latin "color" via Old French "coulour"; in American spelling the 'u' was dropped from colour to aid in spelling. In British spelling the 'u' remains.
Noun
colour (uncountable and countable; plural: colours)
- The spectral composition of visible light
- Humans and birds can perceive colour
- A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class
- Most languages have names for the colours black, white, red and green.
- Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
- He referred to the white flag as one "drained of all colour".
- Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Colour has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
- (figuratively) interest, especially in a selective area.
- a bit of local colour.
- See also Wikipedia: color
Adjective
colour (absolute so no comparative or superlative forms)
- Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey
- Colour television and films were considered a great improvement over black and white
Related terms
- Colourise
- Colorize
- Coloured
- colourful
- Colourless
- Colours
- True colours
- See Appendix:Colours
Translations
- Breton: liv m livioù pl
- Catalan: color m (ca)
- Chinese: 颜色
- Danish: farve
- Dutch: kleur
- Esperanto: koloro
- Finnish: väri
- French: couleur f
- Galician: color
- German: Farbe f (de)
- Greek: χρώμα n (chroma)
- Guaraní: sa'y
- Hebrew: צבע
- Indonesian: warna, rona
- Interlingua: color
- Italian: colore m
- Japanese: 色 (いろ, iro)
- Latin: color, -oris, m
- Norwegian: farge
- Persian: رنگ (rang)
- Polish: kolor m, barwa f
- Portuguese: cor f
- Romanian: culoare f
- Russian: цвет m
- Spanish: color m
- Swedish: färg
- Volapük: köl
- Yiddish: פאַרבּ
Verb
to colour (coloured, coloured)
- To give something colour
- We could colour the walls red
- To draw within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers or crayons
- My son loves to colour
- (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow
- To affect without completely changing
- That interpretation certainly colours my perception of the book
- (colloquial) To attribute a quality to
- Colour me confused
Synonyms
- colour in
Related terms
- colour by numbers
Translations
- Breton: livañ (1)
- Chinese: 填色, 上色, 著色 (1)
- Danish: farve (1)
- Dutch: kleuren (1)
- Esperanto: kolorigi (1)
- Finnish: värjätä (1), värittää (2)
- French: colorer, colorier, teinter (1)
- Galician: colorar (1)
- German: färben (1)
- Greek: χρωματίζω
- Interlingua: colorar (1)
- Persian: رنگ كردن (rang kardan), رزیدن (razidan)
- Polish: kolorować, barwić, zabarwiać (1)
- Portuguese: colorir (1)
- Romanian: a colora (1)
- Russian: красить
- Spanish: colorar, colorear (1)
- Swedish: färgsätta (1), måla (2), färglägga (2), rodna (3)
