watercolour
/ˈwɔ.tɜˌkʌ.lɜ/
watercolour noun: a water-soluble pigment or paint.
Noun
watercolour (countable and uncountable, plural watercolours)
- A water-soluble pigment or paint.
- Jim's aunt uses only watercolours to paint her pictures.
- A painting made by using such pigment.
- Jim's aunt paints beautiful watercolours.
- She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running / Like a watercolour in the rain1976, Al Stewart, “Year of the Cat”
- Synonyms:
- aquarelle
- This kind of painting as a genre.
- I'm not a big fan of watercolour; I much prefer oil painting.
Adjective
watercolour (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the methods or products of watercolor.
Verb
watercolour (third-person singular simple present watercolours, present participle watercolouring, simple past and past participle watercoloured)
- To paint using watercolours.
watercolour meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Bengali and Kannada
watercolour in Hindi
- pigment
- जलवर्ण jalvarṇ, जलरंग jalraṅg, आबरंग ābraṅg
watercolour in Marathi
- genre
- जलरंगचित्रण jalarangachitran
watercolour in Bengali
- pigment
- জলরঙ joloroṅ
watercolour in Kannada
- ಜಲವರ್ಣ, ಜಲವರ್ಣಚಿತ್ರ
More languagesFewer languages
- watercolour in Gujarati
- જલરંગ jalraṅg
- watercolour in Tagalog
- akwarela
- watercolour in Malay
- cat air
- watercolour in Indonesian
- cat air, akuarel
- watercolour in Thai
- สีน้ำ sǐi-náam
- watercolour in Vietnamese
- màu nước
- watercolour in Myanmar
- ရေဆေး rehce:
Synonyms of watercolour
Forms of watercolour
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | watercolours |
| alternative US | watercolor |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | watercolours |
| present participle | watercolouring |
| past participle | watercoloured |
| past | watercoloured |
Origin of watercolour
From water + colour.
Words formed from watercolour
Questions about watercolour
- What does watercolour mean?
- Watercolour means a water-soluble pigment or paint.
- What is watercolour in Hindi?
- Watercolour in Hindi is जलवर्ण (jalvarṇ), जलरंग (jalraṅg), आबरंग (ābraṅg). See Watercolour meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is watercolour?
- Watercolour can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce watercolour?
- Watercolour is pronounced /ˈwɔ.tɜˌkʌ.lɜ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of watercolour?
- The plural of watercolour is watercolours.
Words near watercolour in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: watercolour (page history and authors); watercolour (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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