different between colour vs manila

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

Alternative forms

• Manila
• Maynila (nonstandard)
• Maynilad (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Manila.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??n?l?/
• Hyphenation: ma?nila
• Rhymes: -?l?

Adjective

manila

1. Of or pertaining to Manila, the capital of the Philippines; made in, or exported from, that city.
2. Made of manila paper or material like it.

   a manila envelope

3. Yellow-brown; colored like manila paper.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

manila (uncountable)

1. Fiber made from abaca (Manila hemp), used to make ropes and manila paper.
2. The yellow-brown colour of manila.

Translations

Anagrams

• Almain, Animal, Malian, Milana, al-Amin, almain, aminal, animal, lamina, maalin

Finnish

Alternative forms

• manilla

Noun

manila

1. manila (hemp)

Declension

Anagrams

• ilmaan, ilmana, limaan, limana, maalin, mailan, malina

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??i.la/

Noun

manila f

1. Manila hemp

Declension

Synonyms

• abaka f

Derived terms

• (adjectives) manilowy, manilski

Further reading

• manila in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

manila f (plural manilas)

1. manila (fabric)