colour

• color (U.S. spelling)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɐlɜ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐlə/, [ˈkʰɐɫɐ]

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Homophone: culler

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, India, Jamaica, Belize, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Trididad & Tobago, Singapore, Barbados, Bahamas, Grandada, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grendadines, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Guyana, and Fiji standard spelling of color.

colour (not comparable)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, India, Jamaica, Belize, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Trididad & Tobago, Singapore, Barbados, Bahamas, Grandada, St Lucia, St Vincent & the Grendadines, Antigua & Barbuda, Dominica, Guyana, and Fiji standard spelling of color.

• colourimeter

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

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of color.

• courol, ur-cool

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

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

colour (plural colours or colours)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

• “cǒlǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

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

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color