coloured

Definition of Coloured in English :

1. colored, colorful, coloured

having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination

Example Sentences:
'colored crepe paper'
'the film was in color'
'amber-colored heads of grain'

favoring one person or side over another

Example Sentences:
'a biased account of the trial'
'a decision that was partial to the defendant'

3. bleached, colored, coloured, dyed

(used of color) artificially produced; not natural

Example Sentences:
'a bleached blonde'

having skin rich in melanin pigments

Example Sentences:
'National Association for the Advancement of Colored People'
'dark-skinned peoples'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Coloured

adjective

possessing colour

having a strong element of fiction or fantasy; distorted (esp in the phrase highly coloured)

nounWord forms: plural Coloureds, ColouredWord forms: US Coloreds or Colored

1. old-fashioned, offensive

an individual who is not a White person, esp a Black person

2. South Africa

a person of mixed ethnic parentage or descent

a person of mixed ethnic descent speaking English or Afrikaans as their mother tongue

adjective

3. old-fashioned, offensive

designating or relating to a Coloured person or Coloured people

adj. & n.
Chiefly British

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