different between colored vs colores
colored
English
Alternative forms
- Colored (American spelling)
- coloured (British spelling)
- Coloured (British spelling)
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: ?k?l?rd, IPA(key): /?k?l??d/
Adjective
colored (comparative more colored, superlative most colored)
- (American spelling) Having a color.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:colored
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Influenced pervasively but subtly.
- (US, now dated and sometimes offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:
- […] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.
- 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:
- (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).
Usage notes
Referring to people—in 2006 British anthropological surveys by Peter J. Aspinall et al, out of 75 general population respondents who identified as “mixed race” and one who did not, none found the term “coloured” offensive. Out of 311 student respondents who identified as “mixed race” and 15 who did not, 11 found the term “coloured” offensive.
Coordinate terms
(mixed-race):
- Asian
- black, Black
- white, White
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
colored (plural coloreds)
- (American spelling, US, now dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
- 2005, "Creed, OK", Carnivàle episode 17
- When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part.
Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.
- When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part.
- 2005, "Creed, OK", Carnivàle episode 17
- (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.
Translations
Verb
colored
- (American spelling) simple past tense and past participle of color
Further reading
- color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- cedorol, croodle, crooled, decolor
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colores
English
Noun
colores
- (archaic) plural of color
Anagrams
- coolers, creosol, recools
French
Verb
colores
- second-person singular present indicative of colorer
- second-person singular present subjunctive of colorer
Latin
Noun
col?r?s
- nominative plural of color
- accusative plural of color
- vocative plural of color
References
- colores in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- colores in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Old Spanish
Noun
colores m pl
- plural of color
Portuguese
Verb
colores
- second-person singular (tu) present indicative of colorir
Spanish
Noun
colores m pl
- plural of color
Verb
colores
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of colorar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of colorar.
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