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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
Henry Walter Bates

Meaning of "coloured" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COLOURED

coloured  [ˈkʌləd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COLOURED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Coloured is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COLOURED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

coloured

Coloured

In Southern Africa, the term Coloureds is an ethnic label for people of mixed ethnic origin who possess ancestry from Europe, Asia, and various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa. Besides the extensive combining of these diverse heritages in the Western Cape — in which a distinctive Cape Coloured and affiliated Cape Malay culture developed — in other parts of Southern Africa, their development has usually been the result of the meeting of two distinct groups. Genetic studies suggest the group has the highest levels of mixed ancestry in the world. However, the maternal contribution to the Coloured population, measured by mitochondrial DNA studies, was found to come mostly from the Khoisan population.

Definition of coloured in the English dictionary

The definition of coloured in the dictionary is possessing colour. Other definition of coloured is having a strong element of fiction or fantasy; distorted.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COLOURED


bicolored
ˈbaɪˌkʌləd
chocolate-coloured
ˈtʃɒklətˌkʌləd
coffee-coloured
ˈkɒfɪkʌləd
colored
ˈkʌləd
copper-coloured
ˈkɒpəkʌləd
cream-coloured
ˈkriːmˌkʌləd
discolored
dɪsˈkʌləd
discoloured
dɪsˈkʌləd
flesh-coloured
ˈfleʃˌkʌləd
honey-coloured
ˈhʌnɪˌkʌləd
light-coloured
ˈlaɪtˌkʌləd
many-coloured
ˈmenɪˌkʌləd
multicoloured
ˈmʌltɪˌkʌləd
rust-coloured
ˈrʌstˌkʌləd
straw-coloured
ˈstrɔːkʌləd
uncolored
ʌnˈkʌləd
uncoloured
ʌnˈkʌləd
varicolored
ˈveərɪˌkʌləd
varicoloured
ˈvɛərɪˌkʌləd
wine-coloured
ˈwaɪnkʌləd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COLOURED

colour temperature
colour-blind
colour-code
colour-reversal
colourability
colourable
colourableness
colourably
colourant
colouration
colourer
colourfast
colourfastness
colourful
colourfully
colourfulness
colouring
colouring book
colourisation
colourise

WORDS THAT END LIKE COLOURED

armoured
bicoloured
contoured
enamoured
featured
flavoured
good-humoured
honoured
laboured
mustard-coloured
parti-coloured
pastel-coloured
rose-coloured
self-coloured
time-honoured
unarmoured
unflavoured
unscoured
unsoured
vanilla-flavoured
well-favoured

Synonyms and antonyms of coloured in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «COLOURED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «coloured» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of coloured

Translation of «coloured» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COLOURED

Find out the translation of coloured to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of coloured from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «coloured» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

着了色的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

de color
570 millions of speakers

English

coloured
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रंग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اللون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

цвета
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

colorido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রঙ্গিন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coloré
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

berwarna
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

farbig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

~色の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

~한 색
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Colored
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

màu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வண்ண
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रंगीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

renkli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colorato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kolorowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кольори
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

colorat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

χρώματος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gekleurde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

färgad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

farget
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of coloured

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOURED»

The term «coloured» is very widely used and occupies the 12.116 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COLOURED» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «coloured» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «coloured» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about coloured

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «COLOURED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word coloured.
1
Henry Walter Bates
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
2
Paul Cezanne
Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
3
Jarvis Cocker
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations.
4
Jourdan Dunn
I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.
5
Terry Eagleton
People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.
6
Alice Eve
My dad says that when I was two or three I used to go out dressed as a different character every day. I remember thinking it was perfectly normal to wear different coloured shoes and carry a pink umbrella. But now I've got a goddaughter of that age; I realise it's not normal at all.
7
Joe Frazier
I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
8
Heinrich Himmler
Perhaps we shall also have to hold in check other coloured peoples who will soon be in their certain prime, and thus preserve the world, which is the world of our blood, of our children and of our grandchildren.
9
Bobby Keys
When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
10
Jean Hanff Korelitz
I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in 1983, after graduating from college, I returned to spend two years at Cambridge University.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COLOURED»

Discover the use of coloured in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to coloured and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Coloured Petri Nets: Basic Concepts, Analysis Methods and ...
The book gives a detailed and systematic introduction to high-level Petri nets that includes explanation, motivation, examples, and applications.The author is one of the leading authorities on Petri nets and a member of the steering ...
Kurt Jensen, 1997
2
Coloured lights
Coloured Lights is the first collection of short stories from the winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2000, and it includes the winning story The Museum.
Leila Aboulela, 2001
3
Burdened by Race: Coloured Identities in Southern Africa
This book showcases recent innovative research and writing on coloured identity in southern Africa.
Mohamed Adhikari, 2009
4
Old Coloured Books
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
George Paston, 2012
5
Coloured Figures of English Fungi Or Mushrooms
It varies in fhape and fize, but commonly refembles liver, being faturated with a blood-coloured fluid, which adds to the refemblance. Its tafte is like that of the common muihroom, Ag. campeßris, and fome perfons reckon it nearly as good.
James Sowerby, 1797
6
Coloured Quadrangles: A Guide to the Tenth Book of Euclid's ...
This is meant as a guide to give access to the tenth book for those who may have lost faith in the commentaries by Thomas Heath, but who shrink from the long wanderings through the Greek text.
Christian Marinus Taisbak, 1982
7
The ornamental flower garden and shrubbery, containing ...
BERBERIS EMPETRIFOLIA. Crowberry-leaved Berberry. Nat. Ord. Bebbebibacejb — Bebbebids of Lindley. Linnamn Class Hexandbia, Order Monogynia. BERBERIS, Linnœus.— Calyx of seven or nine sepals, coloured, in two or three whorls, ...
8
Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, ...
coloured handkerchiefs, on the heads of the coloured and negro women, gave great life to the picture; and the diversity of tongues spoken, bewildered as much as it astonished me. There might be heard, the languages and dialects of English , ...
Mrs. Carmichael (A. C.), 1833
9
Coloured Aluminium Jewellery
This book covers various methods of coloring including painting and drawing, low-tech coloring, submersion dyes, anodising, resists, digital printing and sublimation printing.
Lindsey Mann, 2010
10
The Coloured Lands: Fairy Stories, Comic Verse and Fantastic ...
Enter into one of the twentieth century's liveliest and most articulate minds with this long-unavailable book of delights.
G. K. Chesterton, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COLOURED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term coloured is used in the context of the following news items.
1
UK air traffic control boss creates multi-coloured light show using …
It looks like the sort of colourful contemporary video art installation you might see at London's Tate Modern gallery. But in fact this hypnotic film ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
It's just the iftar meal that's been coloured by the ghostly hands of …
I'm old enough to remember when that Nando's Dubai Ramadaan advert was first flighted. From over the seas, I watched the ad on my ... «The Daily Vox, Jul 15»
3
Howard's rose-coloured trade glasses ignore copyright lock-in
Last week, former Australian Prime Minister John Howard and US trade ambassador Robert Zoellick had a reunion tour to mark the 10th ... «ZDNet, Jul 15»
4
Artek reintroduces glass lampshades by Tapio Wirkkala
The coloured diffuser was created as one of many designed to cover the WIR-105 diamond-shaped lightbulb – part of the the designer's TW003 ... «Dezeen, Jul 15»
5
15 gorgeous coloured-sand beaches around the world
Though most people dream about a white sand beach, that's not the only colour beaches come in. Across the world are beaches filled with ... «Business Insider Australia, Jul 15»
6
Kyugum Hwang creates coloured Scent Palette for customising …
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Kyugum Hwang's perfume-designing station allows shoppers to create bespoke ... «Dezeen, Jul 15»
7
Meet one-in-a-million twins Bobby and Riley who have different …
Abigail told the Sunday People: “I couldn't believe we had two different coloured babies. “It seemed like a miracle and although it was unusual, ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
8
What do the coloured Tour de France jerseys mean?
From polka-dots to the iconic yellow jersey, those eye-catching tops have nothing to do with fashion or cyclists' team colours... Like this? «Radio Times, Jul 15»
9
Stone Age man in South Africa made milk-based coloured body …
Now researchers have recovered a small stone flake that suggests South Africans expertly made their paint using milk and ochre 49,000 years ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
The iPod's alive and well, iTunes 12.2 reveals new coloured models …
Apple will continue to release new iPods, it has been revealed, regardless of the rise in ownership of smartphones. And it is expected to ... «Pocket-lint.com, Jul 15»

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