colour

• color (US)

• (Received Pronunciation, Southern England) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌlə/

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• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊlə/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌləɹ/
• (Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈkʊləɹ/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈkɐlə/, [ˈkʰɐɫɐ]

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• Homophone: culler

colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

colour (not comparable)

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

• colourimeter

colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)

1. Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

• courol, ur-cool

• colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈluːr/, /ˈkulur/

colour (plural colours or colours)

1. colour, hue, shade
2. pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
3. method (literary or rhetorical)
4. justification, explanation (often feigned)

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

• “cǒlǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

colour oblique singular, f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color