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color television

color television is the US standard spelling of colour television.

Meaning of colour television

Noun

colour television (countable and uncountable, plural colour televisions)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, uncountable) A colour system of transmitting and receiving television signals.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, countable) A television set that displays images in colour.
    Synonyms:
    television in colour, colour television set

Forms of color television

pluralcolor televisions

Questions about color television

What is color television the US standard spelling of?
Color television is the US standard spelling of colour television.

Words near color television in the dictionary

  1. color separations
  2. color space
  3. color spaces
  4. color stories
  5. color story
  6. color television
  7. color televisions
  8. color temperature
  9. color temperatures
  10. color timing
  11. color timings

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