colored en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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- /ˈkʌləɹd/ (Canada, General-American)
- /ˈkɐləd/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
- ʹkŭlərd (Canada, General-American)
- /ˈkʌləd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *-ōs Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs Proto-Italic *kelōs Old Latin colōs Latin color Old French color Anglo-Norman colurbor. Middle English colour English color English -ed English colored From color + -ed.
Meanings
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(US) Having a color.
Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
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(US, in-compounds) Having a particular color or kind of color.
Nara and its deer are so closely associated that the light-brown colored animals are pictured in the city’s tourism ads, on buses, train tickets and more.
2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN:The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
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(US) Having prominent colors; colorful.
The singer wore a colored shirt.
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(US) Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
The organization's traditions and culture are inwardly focused. It is not conceivable that an alternative solution could exist. This results in a very colored view of the marketplace.
2001, Bernard H. Boar, The Art of Strategic Planning for Information Technology, 2nd edition, New York: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 93:But by and large, a majority of Sanduskians never read any newspaper other than the local journal and I am convinced that they get a far more colored view of national news than they did when the city had competing dailies.
1949 January, Glenn D. Everett, “Putting the President On the Market Page”, in Nieman Reports, volume 3, number 1, Cambridge: Society of Nieman Fellows, →ISSN, page 26:Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view.
1948, 80th United States Congress, Jurisdictional Disputes in the Motion-Picture Industry, volume 3, Washington: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 1966:
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(US, dated, offensive, usually) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
Harriet [Blackburn] had “all the clothes, the styles and all the values of the black bourgeoisie,” Eleanor laughs. “Yet we were fast friends ’cause she was a colored girl, by which I mean we were of the same culture.”
2003, Joan Steinau Lester, “Far from U Street”, in Eleanor Holmes Norton: Fire in My Soul, New York, N.Y.: Atria Books, →ISBN, part 1 (Full of the Faith That the Dark Past Has Taught Us), page 70:To find a job is like a haystack needle / Because where he lives they don't use colored people
1973, Stevie Wonder, “Living for the City”, in Innervisions:[…] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.
1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:He made a smart remark about colored people and I got mad. I got mad because I like colored people. In fact, a colored lady raised me. Some of my best friends are colored people.
1967, “Cowboys & Colored People”performed by Flip Wilson:
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(Botswana, Namibia, South-Africa, US, Zimbabwe, capitalized, sometimes) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
By 1929, many of the Coloured radicals who had been excluded from the ICU had found a temporary home in the Western Cape branch of the African National Congress (ANC).
2014, Shula Marks, Stanley Trapido, editors, The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa, Routledge, →ISBN:Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.
By the end of the 19th century District Six had become a bustling and heavily populated working class neighborhood whose population was predominantly coloured, Cape Malay and African intermixed with Indian, Chinese, and European migrants.
2011, John Bradley, Liz Bradley, Jon Vidar, Victoria Fine, Cape Town: Winelands & the Garden Route, Modern Overland, →ISBN, page 72:
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(US, historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
a colored drinking fountain
New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.
1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:a colored hospital
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| coloured | UK, alternative | lexicographic | |
| more colored | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| Colored | US, alternative | lexicographic | |
| most colored | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| Coloured | UK, alternative | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
black · Asian · White · white · Black
Deriveds
skin-colored · varicoloured · cherrycolored · coloured pencil · smoke-colored pewee · versicolored · colored egg · overcolored · natural-coloured · mouse-colored · decoloured · quadricoloured · plum-coloured · sulfur-colored · monocolored · skin-coloured · suncolored · pentacoloured · coloured revolution · party-colored · bicolored · self-coloured · watercolored · tricolored · clay-colored · brickcolored · pentacolored · many-colored · pseudocoloured · varicolored · tetracolored · miscoloured · R-colored · cream-colored · flesh-colored · coloured egg · technicolored · lead-colored · discolored · undercolored · colored revolution · knife-coloured · colored gold · natural-colored · rust-coloured · rose-colored · self-colored · discoloured · decolored · rose-colored starling · off-colored · unicolored · noncolored · countercolored · technicoloured · overcoloured · pseudocolored · neon-colored · rose-colored glasses · fawncolored · anticolored · tow-colored · aurora-colored · aurora-coloured · tow-coloured · rainbow-colored · wine-coloured · honey-colored · R-colored vowel · off-coloured · leadcoloured · undercoloured · toffee-colored · miscolored · plum-colored · brickcoloured · bicoloured · wine-colored · dust-colored · multicolored · straw-colored · unicoloured · lead-coloured · party-coloured · salmon-colored · cream-colored courser · mouse-colored antshrike · rose-coloured · quadricolored · noncoloured · honey-coloured · fawncoloured · colored pencil · ash-colored · suncoloured · R-coloured · mouse-coloured · straw-coloured · monocoloured · many-coloured · salmon-coloured · countercoloured · cherrycoloured · clay-coloured · particoloured · neon-coloured · versicoloured · cream-coloured · leadcolored · uncolored · sulphur-coloured · twi-colored · watercoloured · gold-colored · clay-colored thrush · rust-colored · knife-colored · uncoloured
Hyponyms
orange · brown · purple · colorful · monochromatic · gray · red · white · tinted · yellow · blue · black · green · multicolored · discolored
Relateds
Synonyms
Eurafrican · colored · hued
Translations (101)
uk кольоро́вий (colorful) · sv färgglad (colorful) · de farbig (South Africa: of neither black nor white skin color) · mr रंगीत (having a color) · hu színes (having a color) · ro colorat (having a particular kind of color) · unm liksi (having a color) · fi värinen (having a particular kind of color) · eo kolora (having a color) · pl kolorowy (having a color) · hu színű (having a particular kind of color) · izh karvalliin (having a color) · pl kolorowy (having a particular kind of color) · izh kirjava (colorful) · ro de culoare (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · fr en couleur (colorful) · bg цветен (colorful) · mi whaikano (having a color) · hu élénk színű (colorful) · ka ფერადი (colorful) · fi sävyinen (having a particular kind of color) · gl colorido (colorful) · bg оцветен (having a particular kind of color) · hu színes bőrű (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · fi värillinen (South Africa: of neither black nor white skin color) · ru цветно́й (having a particular kind of color) · sv färgad (having a particular kind of color) · el έγχρωμος (having a color) · pl ubarwiony (influenced pervasively but subtly) · fr coloré (having a particular kind of color) · sv färggrann (colorful) · sv färgad (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · ro colorat (having a color) · da farvet (South Africa: of neither black nor white skin color) · ka ფერადი (having a particular kind of color) · da farvet (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · sv färgstark (colorful) · cmn 有色 (having a particular kind of color) · es de color (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · gl de cor (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · ko 유색 (having a particular kind of color) · bg цветнокож (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · da kulørt (colorful) · vi da màu (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · uk кольоро́вий (having a particular kind of color) · la colōrātus (having a color) · pl barwny (colorful) · pl barwny (having a color) · hu színes (colorful) · ru цветно́й (colorful) · da farvet (having a particular kind of color) · ru цветно́й (South Africa: of neither black nor white skin color) · fi värikäs (colorful) · da farvet (influenced pervasively but subtly) · ru цветно́й (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · pt colorido/pintado de (having a particular kind of color) · fi värillinen (having a color) · el χρωματισμένος (having a color) · he צָבוּעַ (having a color) · de farbig (colorful) · fa رنگین (having a particular kind of color) · sv färgad (having a color) · pt colorido (colorful) · de farbig (having a particular kind of color) · fr marqué (influenced pervasively but subtly) · fr de couleur (having a particular kind of color) · ro viu colorat (colorful) · izh karvalliin (colorful) · bg цветен (having a color) · gl tinto (having a color) · uk різнокольоро́вий (colorful) · sv färgad (influenced pervasively but subtly) · fi värillinen (designated for use by colored people) · pl podkolorowany (influenced pervasively but subtly) · el χρωματιστός (colorful) · ro colorată (having a color) · pl kolorowy (colorful) · cmn 有色 (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · fr de couleur (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · fi värittynyt (influenced pervasively but subtly) · ru цветно́й (having a color) · fr métis (South Africa: of neither black nor white skin color) · de farbig (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · ja 有色 (having a particular kind of color) · unm likte (having a color) · fr coloré (colorful) · el χρωματιστός (having a color) · ar مُلَوَّن (having a color) · de bunt (colorful) · pt colorido (having a color) · izh karvalliin (having a particular kind of color) · sv påverkad (influenced pervasively but subtly) · pl barwny (having a particular kind of color) · fr de couleur (colorful) · fi värillinen (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · az rəngli (having a color) · uk кольоро́вий (having a color) · ro plin de culoare (colorful) · pt de cor (US: of skin color other than the white, particularly black) · ru разноцве́тный (colorful) · fr teinté (influenced pervasively but subtly)