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technicolour

technicolour is the alternative form of technicolor.

Meaning of technicolor

Adjective

technicolor (not comparable)

  1. (US) Extremely or excessively colourful.
    • I can stand the sight of worms / And look at microscopic germs / But technicolor pachyderms / Is really too much for me1941, “Pink Elephants on Parade”, in Ned Washington (lyrics), Oliver Wallace (music), Dumbo
  2. Describing something in a technicolor model, a model that is similar to the Standard Model but lacks a scalar Higgs field.

See all 7 meanings of technicolor

Forms of technicolour

Adjective
alternative UStechnicolor
Noun
pluraltechnicolours

Origin of technicolour

From technicolor, with the spelling revised to accord with British English colour.

Phrases with technicolour

Questions about technicolour

What is technicolour the alternative form of?
Technicolour is the alternative form of technicolor.

Words near technicolour in the dictionary

  1. technicolor
  2. Technicolor yawn
  3. Technicolor yawns
  4. technicolored
  5. technicolors
  6. technicolour
  7. technicolour yawn
  8. technicoloured
  9. technicolours
  10. technics
  11. technidilaton

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Adapted from Wiktionary: technicolour (page history and authors); technicolor (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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