colour

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See also: color

English

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Noun

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

  1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

Adjective

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colour (not comparable)

  1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
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Verb

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

  1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

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Middle English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

Noun

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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

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  • English: color, colour
  • Scots: colour

See also

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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

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Old French

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Noun

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

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color