colored.
Having a color.
Meaning & usage
Having a color.
Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
Having a particular color or kind of color.
The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
Having prominent colors; colorful.
The singer wore a colored shirt.
Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
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.)
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.
Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
a colored drinking fountain
a colored hospital
Where this word comes from
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.
A colored article of clothing.
A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
A colored (nonwhite) person.
Where this word comes from
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.
simple past and past participle of color
Where this word comes from
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.
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