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coloureds

coloureds is the plural of coloured.

Meaning of coloured

Adjective

coloured (comparative more coloured, superlative most coloured)

  1. British standard spelling of colored.
    • The last quarrel arose from Mr[.] Pompeau’s being more sweet upon Miss Feliciana Woodland, a coloured spinster, than suited Mrs. Pompeau’s ideas of decorum.1832 December 14, “Delicate Distresses”, in James K. Cook, editor, Mississippi Journal and Natchez Advertiser, volume I, number 8, Natchez, Miss.: N. Wooster, →OCLC, page [4], column 4

Noun capitalized: Coloureds

Coloureds

  1. (plural) plural of Coloured

Questions about coloureds

What is coloureds the plural of?
Coloureds is the plural of coloured.
What part of speech is coloureds?
Coloureds is a noun.

Words near coloureds in the dictionary

  1. coloured pencil
  2. coloured pencils
  3. coloured revolution
  4. coloured revolutions
  5. coloured up
  6. coloureds
  7. colourer
  8. colourers
  9. colourest
  10. coloureth
  11. colourfast

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coloureds (page history and authors); Coloureds (page history and authors); coloured (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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