different between colour vs clothe

English

Alternative forms

• color (American spelling)

Pronunciation

Homophone: culler

Noun

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

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Adjective

colour (not comparable)

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Related terms

• colourimeter

Verb

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

1. Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• courol, ur-cool

Middle English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/

Noun

colour (plural colours or coloures)

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

Descendants

• English: color, colour
• Scots: colour

References

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

See also

Old French

Noun

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

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color

English

Etymology

From Middle English clothen, from Old English cl?þian (“to clothe”), from Proto-Germanic *klaiþ?n? (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to adhere to, stick”). Cognate with Dutch kleden, German kleiden, Swedish kläda, after apocope klä. See also cloth, clad.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??ð/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?klo?ð/
• Rhymes: -??ð

Verb

clothe (third-person singular simple present clothes, present participle clothing, simple past and past participle clothed or (archaic) clad)

1. (transitive) To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing.
   • 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, 101-104, [1]

     A YEMAN hadde he and servantz namo / At that tyme, for hym liste ride soo; / And he was clad in cote and hood of grene.
2. (figuratively) To cover or invest, as if with a garment.

   • language in which they can clothe their thoughts

   • 1726, John Dyer, Grongar Hill

     His sides are clothed with waving wood.

Synonyms

• (to adorn or cover with clothing): dight, don, put on; see also Thesaurus:clothe

Derived terms

• beclothe
• overclothe
• underclothe

Translations

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English cl?þ.

Noun

clothe

1. Alternative form of cloth

Etymology 2

From Old English cl?þian.

Verb

clothe

1. Alternative form of clothen