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colour

noun, adj, verb — 3 senses

colour

noun
1

Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

  • Substances float around each other until you crush them all with a blender. Add a bit of white miso, lemon juice, truffle oil, chives: survey your wreckage, which will be the wrong colour (cream with a hint of grey) and the wrong consistency (gluey).2018 July 19, Zoe Williams, “Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My week as a foodie vegan”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:

colour

adj
1

Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

Related terms
colourimeter

colour

verb
1

Commonwealth and Ireland standard spelling of color.

Derived terms
183 termsaccidental colour, anticolour, baulk colour, becolour, bicolour, bodycolour, brass-colour, child of colour, colourability, colourable, colourably, colourant, colourate, colour bar, colourbearer, colourblind, colour-blind, colourbound, colourburst, colourcast, colour centre, colour charge, colour-code, colour code, colour-coded, colour coded, colour commentator, colour-coordinate, colour coordinate, colour-coordinated, colour coordinated, colour coordination, colour'd, colour’d, Coloured, coloured, colourer, coloureth, colourfast, colour-fast, colour field, colour field painting, colour force, colourful, colourfull, colourific, colourimeter, colourimetre, colourimetric, colourimetry, colour in, colouring, colour inside the lines, colourisation, colourise, colouriser, colourish, colourism, colourist, colouristic, colourization, colourize, colourizer, colour killer, colourless, colour light, colour light signal, colourmaker, colourman, colourmap, colour of someone's money, colourogenic, colourologist, colourology, colourous, colour outside the lines, colour pencil, colourphobe, colourphobia, colourphobic, colour pigeon, colourpoint, colour-proof, colour-proud, colour proud, colourpuncture, colourpuncturist, colour retention agent, colour revolution, colour scheme, colour screw, colour sergeant, colours inside the lines, colours outside the lines, colour space, colourspace, colour-struck, colour supplement, colour symbolism, colour television, colour triangle, colour TV, colourtype, colour up, colour wash, colourwash, colourway, colour wheel, colourwise, colourwork, coloury, complementary colour, concolour, costly colours, decolour, decoloured, deep colour, discolour, encolour, eye colour, false-colour, false colour, field colours, flesh colour, Flesh Colour, forecolour, high colour, horse of a different colour, hyperbolic colour, hypercolour, in colour, local colour, man of colour, miscolour, monocolour, multicolour, multicolours, neutral colour, of colour, off-colour, off colour, of the colours, overcolour, pair of colours, people of colour, person of colour, play of colour, play-of-colour, plum-colour, primary colour, primitive colour, prismatic colour, prismatic colours, process colour, pseudocolour, pseudocolouring, R-colour, recolour, secondary colour, self colour, serve with the colours, show colour, show one's true colours, shows one's true colours, skin colour, spot colour, technicolour, tertiary colour, topcolour, tricolour, troops the colour, troops the colours, troop the colour, troop the colours, type colour, uncolour, undercolour, unicolour, watercolour, what colour is your Bugatti, wine colour, with flying colours, woman of colour

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