English
Alternative spellings
coloured (UK)
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-colored.ogg|Audio (US)
Adjective
en-adj
- Having a particular :w:color|color or kind of color.
#* The room was colored red, with a dark-colored rug.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
#* The singer wore a colored shirt.
- Influenced pervasively but subtly.
#* My opinions are colored by my upbringing.
- (U.S., older usage, now demeaning) Of skin color other than the white, particularly black.
#* Being of an older generation, they considered themselves "colored ladies"''
- (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
Translations
rfc-trans
Danish: farvet; kulørt
Finnish: värikäs (colorful), värillinen (skin color)
German: farbig (2)
Ido: koloroza
Persian: ر�گ�� (rangin)
Spanish: coloreado
Noun
en-noun
- (demeaning or potentially offensive) A colored person.
Verb
colored
- past of|color
See also
:w:color|Wikipedia article on color
Anagrams
croodle
decolor
io:colored
fi:colored
zh:colored
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