color

ˈkʌl.ə

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#1·1d ago

A subset thereof.

The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.

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#2·1d ago

(uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.

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#3·1d ago

(uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.

Humans and birds can perceive color.

Origin: From , color, borrowed from , from , color, from . . Displaced , , from . Also partially replaced and its descendants (), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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