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collor

collor is the obsolete form of color.

Meaning of color

Noun

color (countable and uncountable, plural colors)

  1. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
    • Humans and birds can perceive color.
    Synonyms:
    blee
  2. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
    • Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
    Synonyms:
    hue, blee
  3. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
    • The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
    Synonyms:
    hue, shade, blee
  4. These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television).
    • This film is broadcast in color.
  5. Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert.
  6. A paint.
    • The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.

See all 34 meanings of color

Forms of collor

Noun
pluralcollors
Verb
third-person singular presentcollors
present participlecolloring
past participlecollored
pastcollored

Questions about collor

What is collor the obsolete form of?
Collor is the obsolete form of color.

Words near collor in the dictionary

  1. colloquizes
  2. colloquizing
  3. colloquy
  4. colloquying
  5. colloquys
  6. collor
  7. collors
  8. collosol
  9. collosols
  10. collothalamic
  11. collothalamus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: collor (page history and authors); color (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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