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colorman

colorman is the alternative form of colourman.

Meaning of colourman

Noun

colourman (plural colourmen)

  1. A man who sells (and, formerly, prepares) an artist's paints.
    • The Least, my Colourman will run away with, is fifty pounds per annum; my house with taxes stand me at least in Seventy […].1791, Henry Fuseli, edited by David H. Weinglass, Collected English Letters of Henry Fuseli, Kraus International, published 1982, page 73
  2. (UK) A commentator employed to provide background information, analysis, etc., on a given news or sports event.

Forms of colorman

pluralcolormen

Origin of colorman

From color + -man.

Questions about colorman

What is colorman the alternative form of?
Colorman is the alternative form of colourman.

Words near colorman in the dictionary

  1. colorlessly
  2. colorlessness
  3. colormaker
  4. colormakers
  5. colormaking
  6. colorman
  7. colormap
  8. colormaps
  9. colormen
  10. colorogenic
  11. colorology

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