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colorant

colorant is the alternative spelling of colourant.

Meaning of colourant

Noun

colourant (plural colourants)

  1. A pigment, dye or other colour-altering product added to something.

Forms of colorant

pluralcolorants

Origin of colorant

Borrowed from French colorant, equivalent to color + -ant.

Words formed from colorant

Questions about colorant

What is colorant the alternative spelling of?
Colorant is the alternative spelling of colourant.

Words near colorant in the dictionary

  1. Coloradoan
  2. Coloradoans
  3. coloradoite
  4. colorados
  5. Coloran
  6. colorant
  7. colorants
  8. colorate
  9. colorated
  10. colorates
  11. colorating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colorant (page history and authors); colourant (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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