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colours

colours is the plural of colour.

colours is the third-person singular simple present indicative of colour.

Meaning of colour

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)

  1. 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

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Noun

colours

  1. Flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.

Words formed from colours

Phrases with colours

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Questions about colours

What does colours mean?
Colours means flag denoting the nationality of a vessel, flown from the stern.
What is colours the plural of?
Colours is the plural of colour.
What part of speech is colours?
Colours is a noun.

Words near colours in the dictionary

  1. colourpoint
  2. Colourpoint Persian
  3. Colourpoint Persians
  4. colourpoints
  5. colourpuncture
  6. colours
  7. colours in
  8. colours inside the lines
  9. colours outside the lines
  10. colours up
  11. coloursome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colours (page history and authors); colour (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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