colour
colour noun: commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
- Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
Verb
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
- Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
colour meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
colour in Hindi
- colour
- राग rāg, रूप rūp
colour in Tamil
- நிறம், வண்ணம்
colour in Marathi
- colour
- रंग raṅga, वर्ण varṇa
colour in Urdu
- colour
- رنگ raṅg, روپ rūp
More languagesFewer languages
- colour in Bengali
- রঙ, রং, প্রকার, বর্ণ
- colour in Telugu
- రంగు raṅgu, వర్ణము varṇamu, వన్నె vanne, బచ్చెన baccena
- colour in Malayalam
- നിറം niṟaṁ
- colour in Kannada
- ಬಣ್ಣ, ಪೊಗರ್, ಪೊಗರು, ಹೊಗರ್
- colour in Punjabi
- ਰੰਗ, ਰੰਗ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- colour in Gujarati
- રંગકામ
- colour in Odia
- ବେଷ୍ଟନ beṣṭana
- colour in Sanskrit
- रङ्ग raṅga, रुचि rúci, रञ्जन rañjana, शोभा śobhā́
- colour in Sinhala
- වර්ණ warṇa
- colour in Assamese
- ৰং roṅ, বৰণ boron, বোলা büla, বৰ্ণ borno
- colour in Nepali
- रङ raṅ
- colour in Pashto
- غونه ǧuná
Examples of colour in a sentence
- They tried to colour the industrial unrest as a merely local matter.
- When I came in she was drawing on a big piece of coloured paper.
- This text would stand out better if we put it in a coloured box.
Forms of colour
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | colours |
| alternative US | color |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | colours |
| present participle | colouring |
| past participle | coloured |
| past | coloured |
Words formed from colour
- accidental colour
- anticolour
- baulk colour
- becolour
- bicolour
- bodycolour
- brass-colour
- child of colour
- colourability
- colourable
- colourably
- colourant
- colourate
- colour bar
- colourbearer
- colourblind
- colour-blind
- colourbound
- colourburst
- colourcast
- colour centre
- colour charge
- colour-code
- colour code
- colour-coded
- colour coded
- colour commentary
- colour commentator
- colour-coordinate
- colour coordinate
- colour-coordinated
- colour coordinated
- colour coordination
- colour'd
- colour’d
- Coloured
- colourer
- coloureth
- colour-fast
- colourfast
- colour field
- colour field painting
- colour force
- colourful
- colourfull
- colourific
- colourimeter
- colourimetre
- colourimetric
- colourimetry
- colour in
- colouring
- colour inside the lines
- colourisation
- colourise
- colouriser
- colourish
- colourism
- colourist
- colouristic
Phrases with colour
- colour TV
- colour up
- in colour
- of colour
- colour man
- colour men
- colour TVs
- eye colour
- colour bars
- colour wash
- deep colour
- high colour
77 more phrasesFewer phrases
- self colour
- show colour
- skin colour
- spot colour
- tone colour
- type colour
- colour blind
- colour codes
- colour guard
- colour light
- colour proud
- colour screw
- colour space
- colour story
- colour wheel
- false colour
- local colour
- shown colour
- shows colour
- colour coding
- colour forces
- colour guards
- colour killer
- colour lights
- colour pencil
- colour scheme
- colour screws
- colour wheels
- showed colour
- colour analyst
- colour charges
- colour killers
- colour pencils
- colour schemes
- colour stories
- play of colour
- primary colour
- process colour
- showing colour
- colour analysts
- colour fastness
- colour sergeant
- colour triangle
- tertiary colour
- colour announcer
- colour blindness
- colour sergeants
- colour triangles
- primitive colour
- secondary colour
- troop the colour
- colour announcers
- colour revolution
- colour supplement
- colour television
- hyperbolic colour
- troops the colour
- colour blindnesses
- colour coordinates
- colour revolutions
- colour supplements
- colour televisions
- trooped the colour
- colour commentaries
- colour commentators
- colour coordinating
- colour light signal
- trooping the colour
- colour light signals
- complementary colour
- colour retention agent
- colour retention agents
- colour outside the lines
- colour of someone's money
- red-green colour blindness
- horse of a different colour
- what colour is your Bugatti
Questions about colour
- What does colour mean?
- Colour means commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.
- What is colour in Hindi?
- Colour in Hindi is राग (rāg), रूप (rūp). See Colour meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is colour?
- Colour can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- What is the plural of colour?
- The plural of colour is colours.
Words near colour in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: colour (page history and authors); राग (Hindi) (page history and authors); colour (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); रंग (Marathi) (page history and authors); رنگ (Urdu) (page history and authors); colour (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చాయ (Telugu) (page history and authors); നിറം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); colour (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); colour (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); colour (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ବେଷ୍ଟନ (Odia) (page history and authors); रङ्ग (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); වර්ණ (Sinhala) (page history and authors); বোল (Assamese) (page history and authors); रङ (Nepali) (page history and authors); غونه (Pashto) (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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