color
24 ENTRIES FOUND:
- color (noun)
- color (verb)
- color–blind (adjective)
- colored (adjective)
- coloring (noun)
- coloring book (noun)
- color guard (noun)
- color line (noun)
- color scheme (noun)
- complementary color (noun)
- cream–colored (adjective)
- local color (noun)
- off–color (adjective)
- primary color (noun)
- rose–colored (adjective)
- secondary color (noun)
- straw–colored (adjective)
- different (adjective)
- flying (adjective)
- horse (noun)
- living (adjective)
- show (verb)
- spectacle (noun)
- true (adjective)
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color
(US)
noun
plural
colors
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color
(US)
noun
plural
colors
Britannica Dictionary definition of COLOR
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:
a quality such as red, blue, green, yellow, etc., that you see when you look at something
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see pictures of colors starting on this page
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The color of blood is red.
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What color are your eyes?
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What color paint shall we use?
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Blue and green are my favorite colors.
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The pillows are all different colors.
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The room needs more color.
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In early summer the garden is full of color.
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She added color to her outfit with a bright scarf.
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The leaves are starting to change color. [=turn from green to orange, yellow, red, etc.]
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His eyes were bluish-green in color.
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She used red peppers in the salad for color. [=to make it more colorful]
2
:
something used to give color to something
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a pigment or dye
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She's using a new lip/nail color.
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The color bled when I washed the shirt.
[noncount]
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a brand of hair color
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[noncount]
a
:
the use or combination of colors
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a painter who is a master of color
b
— used to describe a photograph, television picture, etc., that includes colors and that is not black and white
— often used before another noun
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see also in living color at living
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The book includes over 100 photographs in (full) color. [=not black and white]
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a color photograph
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color printing/television
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[noncount]
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the color of a person's skin as a mark of race
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discrimination on the basis of sex or color
◊ A person of color is a person who is not white.
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The book is about her experience as a woman of color in a mostly white community.
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[noncount]
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a pink or red tone in a person's face especially because of good health, excitement, or embarrassment
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His color is not good. [=he looks ill]
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She has some good color in her cheeks.
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He could feel the color rising in his cheeks. [=he could feel himself blushing]
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The color drained from her face. [=the blood left her face; she became very pale]
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colors
[plural]
:
something (such as a flag) that shows that someone or something belongs to a specific group
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The ship sails under Swedish colors.
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[noncount]
:
interest or excitement
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see also local color, off-color
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Her comments added color to the broadcast. [=made the broadcast more enjoyable or entertaining]
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color
(US)
verb
or British
colour
/ˈkʌlɚ/
colors;
colored;
coloring
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color
(US)
verb
or British
colour
/ˈkʌlɚ/
colors;
colored;
coloring
Britannica Dictionary definition of COLOR
1
[+ object]
:
to give color to (something)
:
to change the color of (something)
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We colored the water with red ink.
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Does she color [=dye] her hair?
2
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to draw with crayons, markers, colored pencils, etc.
:
to fill in a shape or picture using markers, crayons, colored pencils, etc.
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see also color in (below)
[no object]
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The children were busy coloring in their coloring books.
[+ object]
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My nephew colored a picture for me.
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The child colored the sky blue and the sun yellow.
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[+ object]
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to change (someone's ideas, opinion, attitude, etc.) in some way
— often used as (be) colored
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He never lets rumors color [=influence, affect] his opinion of anyone.
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Her judgment was colored by reports of the student's behavioral problems.
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His feelings about divorce are colored by his own experience as a child.
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[no object]
literary
:
to become red in the face especially because of embarrassment
— often + at
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She colors [=blushes] easily.
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She colored at the mention of his name.
color in
[phrasal verb]
color in (something)
or
color (something) in
:
to add color to (a shape or picture) by using markers, crayons, colored pencils etc.
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see also 2color 2 (above)
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She colored in the picture.
