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English
Alternative spellings
- colored (US)
Adjective
coloured
- Having a particular colour or kind of colour
- The room was coloured red, with a dark-coloured rug.
- Having prominent colours; colourful
- The singer wore a coloured shirt.
- Influenced pervasively but subtly
- My opinions are coloured by my upbringing.
- (US, older usage, now demeaning) Of skin colour other than the white, particularly black.
- Being of an older generation, they considered themselves "coloured ladies"
- (South African, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin colour.
Noun
coloured (plural coloureds)
- (colloquial, dated) (sometimes derogatory) A person who is not white.
Verb
coloured
- Simple past tense and past participle of colour.
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