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• color (US)

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
   • 2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 29 August 2022:
     Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).

colour (not comparable)

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

• colourimeter

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

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

• 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 centre

• 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

• 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

• 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

• colour wash

• 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

• play of colour, play-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

• courol, ur-cool

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

• IPA(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

colour (plural colours or colours)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)

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

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

1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of color