0 red, blue, green, yellow, etc.:
Does the shirt come in any other colour?
literary The whole garden was ablaze with/a riot of colour (= full of different bright colours).
I put my new green shirt in a hot wash and the colour ran (= the colour came out of the material).
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).
1 interesting or exciting qualities or details:
2 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.
As a woman of colour, she experiences discrimination on many levels.
3 (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.
regimental colours
4 Colour television, photography, or printing shows things in all their colours, not just in black and white.
5 to become a particular colour, or to make something a particular colour:
6 If something colours your opinion of something, it influences your opinion in a negative way:
They painted the kitchen in bold colours - crimson, purple, and blue.
She looks best in bright, vibrant colours, like red and pink.
He helped make it possible for actors of colour today to be cast in roles without regard to their race.
Our study looked at achievement among economically disadvantaged students and students of colour.
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