colour

See also: color

English

Alternative forms

• color (US)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, Southern England) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊlə/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌləɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊləɹ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐlə/, [ˈkʰɐɫɐ]

  • Audio (General Australian):

    (file)

• Homophones: culler, color

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. 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)

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

Translations

color — see color

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^(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

Noun

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)

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)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color