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coloured

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1 syllable
8 characters
English (US)
1syllable

coloured

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, coloured is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofcoloured

1verb
  • To give something color.

    Synonyms: dye, paint, shade, stain, tinge, tint

    Example: "We could color the walls red."

  • To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons.

    Synonyms: "color in"

    Example: "My kindergartener loves to color."

  • (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow.

    Synonyms: blush

    Example: "Her face colored as she realized her mistake."

  • To affect without completely changing.

    Synonyms: affect, influence

    Example: "That interpretation certainly colors my perception of the book."

  • To attribute a quality to; to portray (as).

    Synonyms: call

    Example: "Color me confused."

  • To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color.

    Example: "Can this graph be 2-colored?"

1noun
  • A colored person.
  • (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
1adjective
  • Having a color.

    Example: "Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding."

  • Having a particular color or kind of color.

    Example: "The room was red, with a dark-colored rug."

  • Having prominent colors; colorful.

    Example: "The singer wore a colored shirt."

  • Influenced pervasively but subtly.

    Example: "My opinions are colored by my upbringing."

  • Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
  • Of neither black nor white skin color.

    Example: "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).

    Example: "a colored drinking fountain"

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