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recolour

recolour is the alternative form of recolor.

Meaning of recolor

Noun

recolor (plural recolors)

  1. The process of changing the color or something.
  2. An object that has had its color changed.
    • She elaborates further: "It has given me great satisfaction and fulfillment that people like my recolors. These feelings make my days less lonely and boring, even if it is only from a recolor of an object in a computer simulation game. […]2010, J. Gee, Elisabeth R. Hayes, Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st Century Learning, page 88

See all 3 meanings of recolor

Forms of recolour

Noun
pluralrecolours
alternative USrecolor
Verb
third-person singular presentrecolours
present participlerecolouring
past participlerecoloured
pastrecoloured

Origin of recolour

From re- + colour.

Questions about recolour

What is recolour the alternative form of?
Recolour is the alternative form of recolor.

Words near recolour in the dictionary

  1. recolored
  2. recoloring
  3. recolorization
  4. recolorizations
  5. recolors
  6. recolour
  7. recolourable
  8. recolouration
  9. recolourations
  10. recoloured
  11. recolouring

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recolour (page history and authors); recolor (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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