colour

English Online Dictionary. What means colour‎? What does colour mean?

English

Alternative forms

• color (US)

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)

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

Derived terms

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

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