colour

Alternative forms

• color (American)

Noun

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours)

1. (British) Alternative form of color

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative form of color

Verb

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative form of color

Anagrams

• courol, ur-cool

Alternative forms

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈluːr/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

1. colour, hue
2. The colour of an aforementioned thing or region
3. (heraldry) Heraldic colour
4. A pigment, dye, or other instrument for colouring
5. A literary or rhetorical method or technique
6. A reasoning, justification, explanation (often a feigned one)

See also

Noun

colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color