colourman

colourman

See also: colorman, color man, and colour man

English

Alternative forms

• color man, colorman (American spelling)
• colour man (British spelling)

Etymology

From colour +‎ -man.

Noun

colourman (plural colourmen)

1. A man who sells (and, formerly, prepares) an artist's paints. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, Henry Fuseli, in David H. Weinglass (ed.), Collected English Letters of Henry Fuseli, Kraus International 1982, p. 73:

     The Least, my Colourman will run away with, is fifty pounds per annum; my house with taxes stand me at least in Seventy […].

2. (British spelling, broadcasting) A commentator employed to provide background information, analysis, etc., on a given news or sports event. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

commentator

• color analyst
• color announcer
• color commentator
• colour analyst
• colour announcer
• colour commentator

 

Hypernyms

commentator

• sport analyst
• sport announcer
• sport commentator
• sporting announcer
• sporting commentator
• sports analyst
• sports announcer
• sports commentator

 

Coordinate terms

commentator

• play-by-play analyst
• play-by-play announcer
• play-by-play commentator
• play-by-play man

 

Anagrams

• monocular