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coloreds

coloreds is the plural of colored.

Meaning of colored

Noun

colored (plural coloreds)

  1. (US, laundry) A colored article of clothing.
  2. (South Africa, US) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
    Synonyms:
    Eurafrican
  3. (US, dated, offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
    • When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part. / Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.2005, “Creed, OK”, in Carnivàle, episode 17

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Questions about coloreds

What is coloreds the plural of?
Coloreds is the plural of colored.

Words near coloreds in the dictionary

  1. colored pencil
  2. colored pencils
  3. Colored People Time
  4. Colored People's Time
  5. colored up
  6. coloreds
  7. colorer
  8. colorers
  9. colores
  10. colorfast
  11. colorfastness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coloreds (page history and authors); colored (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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