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/ˈkʌlə/

Line drawing of colour
Coloured illustration of colour
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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

Gender
Pluralcolours

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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This word is part of lesson 38.