# colour
## English
### Alternative forms

* color (US)

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, Southern England) IPA: /ˈkʌlə/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Northern England) IPA: /ˈkʊlə/
* (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /ˈkʌləɹ/
* (Ireland) IPA: /ˈkʊləɹ/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈkɐlə/, [ˈkʰɐɫɐ]
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Homophones: culler, color

### Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)
* Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

### Adjective

colour (not comparable)
* Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

#### Related terms

* colourimeter

### Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
* Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

#### Translations
### Derived terms

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

### Anagrams

* courol, ur-cool

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

### Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

### Noun

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

#### Descendants

* English: color, colour
* Scots: colour

### 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 |

### References

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

## Old French
### Noun

colour oblique singular, f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
* (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color