colour

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)

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

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

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

Derived terms

• colour light signal
• colour television
• colourise (colourize)
• colourless

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

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

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

Anagrams

• courol, ur-cool

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Middle English

Alternative forms

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

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

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

References

• “cǒlǒur (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

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

Noun

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

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color