Meaning
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- Having a color.
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
- Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
Synonyms
colored person
of a certain color
of a certain colour
non-white
chromatic color
people of color
people of colour
person of color
person of colour
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkʌləɹd/
Etymology
From color + -ed.
New
color
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- The spectral composition of visible light.
- A subset thereof:
- A subset thereof:
- A subset thereof:
- A subset thereof:
- A paint.
- Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
- Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment.
- A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion.
- Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment.
- A standard, flag, or insignia:
- A standard, flag, or insignia:
- A standard, flag, or insignia:
- An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
- The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
- A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge.
- 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.
- The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
- Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
- A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext.
- An appearance of right or authority; color of law.
- Gold, particles of gold found when prospecting.
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