Meaning of colour in English

colour
noun
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colour noun (APPEARANCE)

A1 [ C or U ]
red, blue, green, yellow, etc.:
What's your favourite colour?
She wears a lot of bright colours.
What colour are your eyes?
Does the shirt come in any other colour?
I like rich jewel colours, such as purple, blue, and green.
Are the photos in colour or black and white?
[ U ]
the pleasant effect of a bright colour or of a lot of colours together:
I think we need a bit of colour in this room.
Red and yellow peppers give a little colour to the sauce.
literary The whole garden was ablaze with/a riot of colour (= full of different bright colours).
[ C ]
a substance, such as a paint or dye, that you add to something to give it a particular colour:
I put my new green shirt in a hot wash and the colour ran (= the colour came out of the material).
[ U ]
a pink colour in someone's face, often showing good health or showing feelings such as embarrassment or excitement:
That walk has put some colour in your cheeks.
I watched the colour drain from her face as she heard the news.
She has a high colour (= the natural colour of her face is red).
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colour noun (INTEREST)

C2 [ U ]
interesting or exciting qualities or details:
We added your story for a bit of local colour.
Michael was there so that added a bit of colour to the evening's proceedings.
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colour noun (RACE)

C2 [ C or U ]
the natural colour of a person's skin which shows which race they belong to:
She felt she had not been given the job because of her colour.
There should be no discrimination on the grounds of color.
 person/woman/man, etc. of colour
used to describe people who do not consider themselves to be white:
We need to protect the rights of people of colour.
As a woman of colour, she experiences discrimination on many levels.
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colour noun (SYMBOL)

 colours [ plural ]
(at school, college, or university) an honour given to people who have been chosen for a sports team, often represented by a special symbol on a shirt or tie:
She was awarded her colours for hockey/her hockey colours at the end of term.
the official flag of a country, ship, or military group:
regimental colours
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Idioms

see sb's true colours
show sb in their true colours
colour
adjective
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Colour television, photography, or printing shows things in all their colours, not just in black and white.
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colour
verb
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colour verb (BECOME A COLOUR)

A1 [ I or T ]
to become a particular colour, or to make something a particular colour:
Do you think he colours his hair?
He drew a heart and coloured it red.
Fry the onions till they start to colour.
[ I ]
to become red in the face because you are embarrassed
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colour verb (INFLUENCE)

C2 [ T often passive ]
If something colours your opinion of something, it influences your opinion in a negative way:
I'm sure my views on marriage are coloured by my parents' divorce.
I'm trying not to let my judgment be coloured by that one incident.
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Phrasal verb

colour sth in
(Definition of colour from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Translations of colour

in Chinese (Traditional)
外表, 顏色, 色彩，色調…
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外表, 颜色, 色彩，色调…
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color, colorear…
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cor, cor (da pele), colorir…
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色, 肌の色, ～に色を塗る…
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renk, bütün renkler, ten rengi…
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couleur, peinture, en couleur…
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color, pintar…
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لَوْن, عِرْق, يُلوّن…
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barva, barva pleti, barvitost…
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farve, hudfarve, liv…
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warna, cat, warna kulit…
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สี, สีผิว, ความชัดเจน…
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màu sắc, thuốc màu, màu da…
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kolor, barwa, kolor (skóry )…
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warna primer, cat air, warna kulit…
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die Farbe, die Stimmung, Farb-……
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farge, -farge, (hud)farge…
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색(영국), (인종을 나타내는) 피부 색, 색을 칠하다…
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colore, colorare, a colori…
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цвет, цвет кожи, расовая принадлежность…
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