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Meaning of "tricolour" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TRICOLOUR

tricolour  [ˈtrɪkələ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRICOLOUR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tricolour can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TRICOLOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tricolour in the English dictionary

The first definition of tricolour in the dictionary is having or involving three colours. Other definition of tricolour is the French national flag, having three equal vertical stripes in blue, white, and red. Tricolour is also any flag, badge, ribbon, etc, with three colours.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRICOLOUR


Agricola
əˈɡrɪkələ
cackler
ˈkækələ
chuckler
ˈtʃʌkələ
conventicler
kənˈventɪkələ
intercalar
ɪnˈtɜːkələ
knuckler
ˈnʌkələ
pickler
ˈpɪkələ
rucola
ˈruːkələ
snorkeler
ˈsnɔːkələ
suckler
ˈsʌkələ
truckler
ˈtrʌkələ
tubicolar
tjuːˈbɪkələ
winkler
ˈwɪŋkələ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRICOLOUR

trickster
tricksy
tricktrack
tricky
triclad
triclinia
triclinic
triclinium
triclosan
tricolette
triconsonantal
triconsonantic
tricorn
tricornered
tricorporate
tricostate
tricot
tricoteuse
tricotine
tricrotic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRICOLOUR

bicolour
body colour
colour
discolour
eye colour
flour
four-colour
hair colour
multicolour
off colour
off-colour
oil colour
person of colour
primary colour
recolour
secondary colour
skin colour
technicolour
three-colour
tone colour
watercolour

Synonyms and antonyms of tricolour in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tricolour» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRICOLOUR

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

Translator English - Chinese

三色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tricolor
570 millions of speakers

English

tricolour
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तिरंगा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الالوان الثلاثة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

триколор
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tricolor
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ত্রিবর্ণ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tricolore
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tricolor
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tricolor
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トリコロール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tricolor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ba màu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மூவண்ணத்தைக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तिरंगा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

üç renkli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tricolore
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tricolor
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

триколор
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tricolor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τρίχρωμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

driekleur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tricolor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tricolor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tricolour

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRICOLOUR»

The term «tricolour» is regularly used and occupies the 82.687 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of tricolour
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «tricolour».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRICOLOUR» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «tricolour» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «tricolour» 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 tricolour

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRICOLOUR»

Discover the use of tricolour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tricolour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cambodia Under the Tricolour: King Sisowath and the "mission ...
Illustrating the social and political history of Cambodia during the heyday of the French mission civilisatrice in the Sisowath years, this book examines the contradictory nature of the ancient kingdom.
John Andrew Tully, 1996
2
The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton
Galton drops this manner of allowing for the unstated characters of the higher ascendants when he comes to the coat-colour of Bassets. He argues as follows: Out of 1060 parents of 530 offspring with tricolour coats 836 were tricolour and 224 ...
Karl Pearson, 2011
3
The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton
Galton drops this manner of allowing for the unstated characters of the higher ascendants when he comes to the coat-colour of Bassets. He argues as follows: Out of 1060 parents of 530 offspring with tricolour coats 836 were tricolour (T) and ...
4
The Plummer Bible
A stray tricolour gene in Jennie's pedigree resulted in the production of tricolours. 2. Alan Thomas's Hamish (tricolour blood) was introduced deliberately to widen the gene pool and to give the type greater substance. Hamish was a national ...
David Brian Plummer, 2006
5
Indian tricolor
Comprehensive and interesting, this extensively researches book also comprises numerous illustrations, rare photographs and fascinating trivia on flags.It is, undoubtedly, the ultimate reference book on flags in general, and an authority ...
K. V. Singh, Flag Foundation of India, 2005
6
Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America
The tricolour appeared, for example, in Germany (black, red and gold) as early as the War of Liberation (1813–14), fought against France, when it became a mark of resistance against French administration and domination. The hundreds of ...
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Richard Jenkins, 2007
7
Reactions to Irish Nationalism, 1865-1914
But after the failure of the Rising and the subsequent executions of the leading revolutionaries the tricolour and 'The Soldier's Song' became more and more popular as symbols of the rebellion. 'Tricolour badges', it is said in an eyewitness  ...
Alan O'Day, 1987
8
About Dogs:
Back | Home | Up | Next Yugoslavian Tricolour Hound Alternative names Srpski Trobojni Gonič Yugoslavian Tricolour Hound Jugoslavenski Trobojni Gonic Country of origin Serbia and Montenegro Common nicknames Classification and  ...
Nicolae Sfetcu, 2014
9
Edible & Medicinal Flowers
Viola lutea • Viola tricolour xnsies with their happy faces, grow with joy in sunny places.' No garden is complete without an edging or planting of pansies and violas. The exquisite garden pansy (Viola x Wittrockiana) hybrids available today  ...
‎2000
10
Toy Dogs and Their Ancestors: Including the History and ...
Tricolour Red-and-white Black- and-tan I i Tricolour, i Red-and-white Tricolour Red-and- white All Mismarked Black-and-tan Tricolour Out Red-and- Cross white Tricolour Red-and- white Black-and-tan Mismarked Black- and-white Tricolour All  ...
Lady Wentworth, 1911

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRICOLOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tricolour is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Milkha Singh to unfurl tricolour on Independence Day at Michigan
CHANDIGARH: Legendary athlete Milkha Singh will unfurl the tricolour on Independence Day at Michigan this year where the Indian community will hold a ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
2
Man bailed over Tricolour waving past Twaddell
A 37-year-old Lisburn man accused of driving past a group of loyalists at a north Belfast interface, waving a Tricolour and shouting 'up the 'RA' has been ... «U.TV, Jul 15»
3
Court records statement against Bachchans for "insulting" tricolour
In one of the photographs while celebrating the victory over Pakistan at his Juhu residence, Amitabh Bachchan had put the tricolour on his back and shoulders ... «Oneindia, Jul 15»
4
Tricolour at Orange museum 'may have offended residents'
A veteran unionist councillor in east Belfast has supported the Orange Order's decision not to fly the Irish tricolour from its new museum, saying that it would have ... «Belfast Newsletter, Jun 15»
5
Row over tricolour and Palestinian flag in Coleraine council chamber
Questions are to be asked on Tuesday night at the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council about why the Irish tricolour and Palestinian flag were unveiled ... «Belfast Newsletter, Jun 15»
6
Case against Amitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek over tricolour insult
Case against Amitabh Bachchan, son Abhishek over tricolour insult. A case has been filed against Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan and his son Abhishek ... «The Indian Express, Jun 15»
7
1916 Societies says members raised Tricolour over Stormont
Members of the 1916 Societies were responsible for erecting the Tricolour and the green flag of the Irish Republic over Parliament Buildings, Stormont, last week ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
8
So the Stormont Tricolour wasn't Sinn Fein after all…
On Wednesday 3rd of June, members of the 1916 Societies, taking advantage of lax security at the Stormont Assembly in Belfast, accessed the roof of the ... «Slugger O'Toole, Jun 15»
9
'Seven detectives' in Stormont Tricolour probe
The SDLP has strongly criticised the reaction to last week's incident involving an Irish Tricolour flying over Stormont, claiming seven detectives were involved in ... «U.TV, Jun 15»
10
Stormont tricolour briefing 'entirely unsatisfactory'
A Stormont briefing to establish how an Irish tricolour and the Irish Republic proclamation flag were flown from the roof of Stormont “was entirely unsatisfactory”, ... «Belfast Newsletter, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tricolour [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tricolour>. Apr 2024 ».
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