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color-proud

color-proud is the alternative form of colour-proud.

Meaning of colour-proud

Adjective

colour-proud (comparative more colour-proud, superlative most colour-proud)

  1. Favouring people of one's own skin colour over others; racist, racially prejudiced.
    • To the Frenchman, of course, black and white are both alike. He is not so colour-proud as we are. And an Algerian negro is a fully-fledged French citizen.1924, Cherry Kearton, The Shifting Sands of Algeria, London: Arrowsmith

Forms of color-proud

comparativemore color-proud
superlativemost color-proud

Questions about color-proud

What is color-proud the alternative form of?
Color-proud is the alternative form of colour-proud.

Words near color-proud in the dictionary

  1. color-coordinated
  2. color-guard
  3. color-guards
  4. color-octet
  5. color-octets
  6. color-proud
  7. color-screw
  8. color-screws
  9. color-struck
  10. colorabilities
  11. colorability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: color-proud (page history and authors); colour-proud (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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