Word: color Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc). Pronunciation: /ˈkʌl.ə/, /ˈkʌl.ə(ɹ)/, [ˈkʰʌl.ə(ɹ)], [ˈkʌləɹ], [ˈkʰɐɫ.ɐ] 1. The spectral composition of visible light. Labels: uncountable Example: Humans and birds can perceive color. 2. A subset thereof: Labels: countable Example: Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green. Example: What color are your bf's eyes? 3. A subset thereof: Labels: uncountable Example: The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color. 4. A subset thereof: Labels: countable, uncountable Example: This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white. 5. A subset thereof: Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A paint. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape. 7. Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. Labels: uncountable Example: Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies. 8. Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment. Labels: countable, uncountable 9. A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage. 10. Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: color commentator Example: color commentary 11. A standard, flag, or insignia: Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale. 12. A standard, flag, or insignia: Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: The colors were raised over the new territory. Example: The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty. 13. A standard, flag, or insignia: Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors. 14. An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable Example: He was awarded colors for his football. 15. The morning ceremony of raising the flag. Labels: countable, in-plural, uncountable 16. A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge. Labels: countable, uncountable 17. A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price. Labels: uncountable 18. The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia ) Labels: countable, uncountable 19. Any of the colored balls excluding the reds. Labels: countable, uncountable 20. A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country. 21. An appearance of right or authority; color of law. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars. Example: They held possession under color of title. 22. Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal. 23. To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get". Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle. 24. Timbre, often in relation to orchestration. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In other words, Brahms saves the higher violin color for the more important foreground statement and assigns the soft swirling background to middle-register violins and violas, while the cellos dominate in their best voice. 25. The quality of a particular vowel sound. Labels: countable, uncountable