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colored

UK /ˈkʌləd/US /ˈkʌləɹd/

adjective 7
noun 3
forms 3
phrases 3

adjective7

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Having a color.
- Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.
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[in compounds] Having a particular color or kind of color.
- The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.
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Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- 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
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Having prominent colors; colorful.
- The singer wore a colored shirt.
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(offensive, old-fashioned) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- […] 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
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(South-Africa) 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.
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(historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
- New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary. — 1957

noun3

(South-Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
(offensive, old-fashioned) A colored (nonwhite) person.
A colored article of clothing.

forms

coloreds · more colored · most colored

Phrases with colored

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