colored
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌləd/
The English word “colored” has 10 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Having a color.
- Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- 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.)
- Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
noun
Etymology
From color + -ed.
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