/ˈkʌlə/
Translation
What something looks like, such as red, blue, or green.
Word origin
From Old French colour, from Latin color, meaning the look or shade of a thing.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- color
Grammar
Examples
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"Colour" means red, blue, green, and so on.
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"Colours" is the plural, meaning more than one colour.
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We ask about a "colour" to know how something looks.
A colour is what something looks like, such as red, blue, yellow, or green. We use colour to talk about how things appear to our eyes. One is a colour, and more than one are colours. This is the British spelling; American English writes it as "color".
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