color
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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).
Inflected forms:
form: colors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: colour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
form: usage notes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: colour
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
form: usage notes
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: colors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coloring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: colored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: colored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: colour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
form: usage notes
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The spectral composition of visible light.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Humans and birds can perceive color.
gloss: A subset thereof:
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
What color are your bf's eyes?
We should paint the wall another color.
Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
gloss: A subset thereof:
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
gloss: A subset thereof:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
gloss: A subset thereof:
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A paint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
gloss: Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
gloss: Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] 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.
gloss: Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: color commentator
color commentary
There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
a bit of local color
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
gloss: A standard, flag, or insignia:
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
gloss: A standard, flag, or insignia:
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: The colors were raised over the new territory.
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.
gloss: A standard, flag, or insignia:
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
gloss: An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: He was awarded colors for his football.
gloss: The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
They held possession under color of title.
The only thing which this defendant is accused of doing is that he excluded this boy from the school, and he did it under the color of the statute relating to the subject, and did it because he was a colored boy.
no such action, suit, or any other process or proceeding thereupon shall at any time be impeached, stayed, or delayed by or under colour or pretence of any privilege of Parliament.
gloss: Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To bleed, either through injury or blading. Usually prefaced with "get".
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
gloss: Timbre, often in relation to orchestration.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The quality of a particular vowel sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: Color television and movies were considered a great improvement over black and white.
I took my TV over on the first trip. I got a beauty. It's four years old, color, but when I had a little snow and asked the repairman to come in, he told me never, never turn this set in for a new one.
gloss: To give something color.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: We could color the walls red.
gloss: To give something color.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
examples: My kindergartener loves to color.
gloss: To become red through increased blood flow.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: Her face colored as she realized her mistake.
gloss: To affect without completely changing.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book.
gloss: To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
examples: Color me confused.
They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
gloss: To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: Can this graph be 2-colored?
You can color any map with four colors.
gloss: To affect the quality of a speech sound, especially a vowel.
pos: verb
tags: US
usually
examples: Many languages have a "neutral", roughly central vowel like /a/ or /ə/ which can be colored to a back, rounded vowel like [o] by an adjacent labialized consonant, or to a front, unrounded vowel like [e] by an adjacent palatalized consonant.
The Proto-Indo-European laryngeal *h₂ often colors the neutral vowel *e with an a-like quality, while *h₃ results in a more o-like quality; *h₁ has no coloring effect.
Synonyms: blee
color
hue
shade
tincture
tint
Antonyms: decolor
Related words: :Category:Colors
Appendix:Colors
colorably
coloration
tincture
Derived words: anticolor
bicolor
bodycolor
coat color dilution lethal
colorability
color analyst
color announcer
color banding
color bar
color barrier
color bass
colorbearer
colorblind
color-blind
color blind
color blindness
colorbreed
colorburst
colorcast
color center
color charge
color-code
color code
color-coded
color coded
color commentator
color compass
color confinement
color constancy
color-coordinate
color coordinate
color coordinate system
color coordination
color depth
color fade
colorfast
colorfastness
color field
color-flavor
color-flavor locking
color font
color force
colorful
color grading
color guard
color-guard
coloriferous
colorification
Colorify
colorimeter
colorimetry
colorine
colorisation
colorise
coloriser
colorism
colorist
coloristic
colorization
colorize
colorizer
color killer
colorless
color line
colormaker
colormaking
colorman
color man
colormap
color me
color model
color-octet
color of authority
color of law
color of office
color of someone's money
color of title
colorogenic
colorologist
colorology
coloron
colorous
color pencil
colorphobia
colorphobic
color photography
color pigeon
color pop
color-proud
color proud
colorpuncture
color revolution
color-screw
color screw
color separation
colorsome
color space
color story
color-struck
color television
color temperature
color timing
color triangle
color TV
colortype
color war
color wash
colorway
color wheel
colorwise
colorwork
complementary color
discoloration
duocolor
false-color
Finlaycolor
flame-color
flesh-colored
flying colors
forecolor
four color
four color problem
four color theorem
full color
give color to
grapheme-color
haircolor
horse of a different color
hyperbolic color
hypercolor
impossible color
in color
in flying colors
in living color
intercolor
lend color to
lip color
monocolor
multicolor
multicolored
multicolors
noncolor
of color
off-color
pair of colors
pentacolor
person of color
play of color
poster color
prismatic colors
pseudocolor
quadricolor
quincolor
rainbow color
rainbow-colored
real-color
show one's true colors
spot color
sulfur-color
Technicolor
technicolored
The Color Purple
tone color
topcolor
Tricolor
tricolor
troop the color
true-color
true colors
turn one's color
type color
uncolor
undercolor
unicolor
unicolored
watercolor
wax-color
what color is the sun in your world
what color is your Bugatti
with flying colors
colored
discolor
colorable
colorate
color by number
color by numbers
colorer
color in
color inside the lines
color outside the lines
color up
decolor
miscolor
overcolor
precolor
R-colored vowel
recolor
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kleur
lang: American Sign Language
word: 5@Chin-PalmBack Wiggle
lang: Arabic
word: لَوْن
roman: lawn
lang: Armenian
word: գույն
roman: guyn
lang: Azerbaijani
word: rəng
lang: Bashkir
word: төҫ
roman: töś
lang: Belarusian
word: ко́лер
roman: kóljer
lang: Bulgarian
word: цвят
roman: cvjat
lang: Catalan
word: color
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 顏色 /颜色
roman: ngaan⁴ sik¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 色
roman: sè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 顏色 /颜色
roman: yánsè
lang: Czech
word: barva
lang: Danish
word: farve
lang: Dutch
word: kleur
lang: Egyptian
word: i-wn:n-D3
roman: jwn
lang: Estonian
word: värv
lang: Finnish
word: väri
lang: French
word: couleur
lang: Georgian
word: ფერი
roman: peri
lang: German
word: Farbe
lang: Greek
word: χρώμα
roman: chróma
lang: Greenlandic
word: qalipaat
lang: Haitian Creole
word: koulè
lang: Hebrew
word: צֶבַע
roman: tséva
lang: Hindi
word: रंग
roman: raṅg
lang: White Hmong
word: xim
lang: Hungarian
word: szín
lang: Icelandic
word: litur
lang: Irish
word: dath
lang: Japanese
word: 色
roman: iro
lang: Japanese
word: 色彩
roman: shikisai
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ڕەنگ
roman: reng
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: koulær
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: koulè
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: koulèr
lang: Low German
word: farv
lang: Low German
word: klöör
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Faarf
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Fuarf
lang: Malay
word: warna
lang: Malay
word: rona
lang: Malayalam
word: നിറം
roman: niṟaṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: വർണ്ണം
roman: vaṟṇṇaṁ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: farge
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: farge
lang: Old English
word: blēo
lang: Old English
word: hīew
lang: Dari
word: رَنْگ
roman: rang
lang: Iranian Persian
word: رَنْگ
roman: rang
lang: Polish
word: barwa
lang: Polish
word: kolor
lang: Portuguese
word: cor
lang: Romanian
word: culoare
lang: Russian
word: цвет
roman: cvet
lang: Samoan
word: lanu
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: barwa
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: barba
lang: Spanish
word: color
lang: Swedish
word: färg
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: رنگ
roman: reng
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بویا
roman: boya
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: لون
roman: levn
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: فام
roman: fâm
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: الوان
roman: elvân
lang: Ukrainian
word: ко́лір
roman: kólir
lang: Vietnamese
word: màu
lang: Vietnamese
word: Vietnamese: sắc
lang: Volapük
word: köl
lang: Bulgarian
word: колори́т
roman: kolorít
lang: Dutch
word: kleur
lang: Finnish
word: paikallisväri
lang: Greek
word: χρώμα
roman: chróma
lang: Japanese
word: 色
roman: iro
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: farge
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: koloritt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: farge
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: koloritt
lang: Polish
word: koloryt
lang: Russian
word: колори́т
roman: kolorít
lang: Albanian
word: ly
lang: Arabic
word: لَوَّنَ
roman: lawwana
lang: Armenian
word: ներկել
roman: nerkel
lang: Belarusian
word: фарбава́ць
roman: farbavácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: пафарбава́ць
roman: pafarbavácʹ
lang: Breton
word: livañ
lang: Bulgarian
word: оцветявам
roman: ocvetjavam
lang: Catalan
word: acolorir
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 填色
roman: tián sè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 上色
roman: shàng sè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 著色
roman: zhuó sè
lang: Czech
word: obarvit
lang: Danish
word: male
lang: Dutch
word: kleuren
lang: Dutch
word: inkleuren
lang: Esperanto
word: kolorigi
lang: Esperanto
word: kolori
lang: Finnish
word: värjätä
lang: French
word: colorer
lang: French
word: teinter
lang: Galician
word: colorar
lang: German
word: färben
lang: Greek
word: χρωματίζω
roman: chromatízo
lang: Greek
word: βάφω
roman: váfo
lang: Hebrew
word: צבע
roman: tsavá
lang: Hungarian
word: színez
lang: Hungarian
word: fest
lang: Icelandic
word: lita
lang: Interlingua
word: colorar
lang: Irish
word: dathaigh
lang: Italian
word: colorare
lang: Italian
word: colorire
lang: Japanese
word: 塗る
roman: nuru
lang: Korean
word: 칠하다
roman: chilhada
lang: Central Kurdish
word: رەنگ کردن
roman: reng kirdin
lang: Latin
word: colōrō
lang: Malay
word: mewarna
lang: Manx
word: daah
lang: Pashto
word: رنګول
lang: Persian
word: رنگ کردن
lang: Polish
word: kolorować
lang: Polish
word: barwić
lang: Polish
word: zabarwiać
lang: Portuguese
word: colorir
lang: Romanian
word: colora
lang: Russian
word: кра́сить
roman: krásitʹ
lang: Russian
word: покра́сить
roman: pokrásitʹ
lang: Shor
word: сырларға
roman: sırlarğa
lang: Slovene
word: pobarvati
lang: Spanish
word: colorar
lang: Spanish
word: colorear
lang: Spanish
word: teñir
lang: Spanish
word: colorir
lang: Swedish
word: färgsätta
lang: Swedish
word: färga
lang: Swedish
word: färglägga
lang: Turkish
word: boyamak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بویالامق
roman: boyalamak
lang: Ukrainian
word: фарбува́ти
roman: farbuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: розфарбо́вувати
roman: rozfarbóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: розфарбува́ти
roman: rozfarbuváty
lang: Vietnamese
word: nhuộm
lang: Volapük
word: kölön