colored
IPA: kˈʌɫɝd
noun
- (American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
- (South Africa) A colored person; a person descended from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black white, Asian, Austronesian).
- (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
adjective
- (American spelling) Having a color.
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- (US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- (South Africa, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
- Alternative letter-case form of colored (“non-white, or mixed race”) [(American spelling) Having a color.]
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Examples of "colored" in Sentences
- I picked a red colored paint from the store.
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