colour

See also: color

English

Alternative forms

color (U.S. spelling)

Pronunciation

(General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐɫɐ/
Audio (AU) (file)

Homophone: culler

Noun

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

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

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

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

Related terms

colourimeter

Verb

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

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

Translations

— see color

Derived terms

accidental colour
anticolour
baulk colour
becolour
bicolour
brass-colour
child of colour
colourable
colourant
colourate
colour bar
colourbearer
colour-blind
colourblind
colourbound
colourburst
colourcast
colour charge
colour code
colour-code
colour-coded
colour commentator
colour-coordinate
colour coordinate
colour-coordinated
colour coordinated
colour coordination
colour'd
colour’d
coloured
Coloured
coloureth
colour-fast
colourfast
colour field painting
colour force
colourful
colourfull
colourific
colourimeter
colourimetre
colourimetric
colourimetry
colour in
colouring
colour inside the lines
colourise
colouriser
colourish
colourism
colourist
colourize
colourizer
colour killer
colourless
colour light signal
colourmaker
colourman
colourmap
colourogenic
colourologist
colourology
colourous
colour outside the lines
colour pencil
colourphobe
colourphobia
colourphobic
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
colourspace
colour space
colour supplement
colour symbolism
colour television
colour triangle
colourtype
colour up
colourway
colour wheel
colourwise
colourwork
coloury
complementary colour
concolour
decolour
decoloured
eye colour
false colour
false-colour
flesh colour
Flesh Colour
forecolour
horse of a different colour
hyperbolic colour
in colour
local colour
man of colour
miscolour
monocolour
multicolour
neutral colour
of colour
off colour
off-colour
overcolour
pair of colours
people of colour
person of colour
primary colour
primitive colour
prismatic colour
prismatic colours
pseudocolour
pseudocolouring
recolour
secondary colour
self colour
show one's true colours
shows one's true colours
skin colour
technicolour
tertiary colour
tricolour
troops the colour
troops the colours
troop the colour
troop the colours
type colour
uncolour
undercolour
unicolour
wine colour
with flying colours
woman of colour

Anagrams

courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

colour, hue, shade
pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
method (literary or rhetorical)
justification, explanation (often feigned)

Descendants

English: color, colour
Scots: colour

References

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

Old French

Noun

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

(Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color