Definitions for colours

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colours col·our

Spelling: [kuhl-er]

IPA: /ˈkʌl ər/

Colours is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in colours (cloorsu).

Definitions for colours

noun

1. the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object, usually determined visually by measurement of hue, saturation, and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue.
2. the natural appearance of the skin, especially of the face; complexion:
3. a ruddy complexion:
4. a blush:
5. vivid or distinctive quality, as of a literary work:
6. details in description, customs, speech, habits, etc., of a place or period:
7. something that is used for coloring; pigment; paint; tint; dye.
8. background information, as anecdotes about players or competitors or analyses of plays, strategy, or performance, given by a sportscaster to heighten interest in a sportscast.
9. colors. any distinctive color or combination or pattern of colors, especially of a badge, ribbon, uniform, or the like, worn or displayed as a symbol of or to identify allegiance to, membership in, or sponsorship by a school, group, or organization. nature, viewpoint, or attitude; character; personality: a flag, ensign, etc., particularly the national flag. U.S. Navy. the ceremony of hoisting the national flag at 8 a.m. and of lowering it at sunset.
10. skin complexion of a particular people or ethnic group, especially when other than white: a person of color; people of color; a man of color; alumni of color; children of color.
11. outward appearance or aspect; guise or show:
12. a pretext:
13. Painting. the general use or effect of the pigments in a picture.
14. Phonetics. timbre.
15. Chiefly Law. an apparent or prima facie right or ground:
16. Music. tone color.
17. a trace or particle of valuable mineral, especially gold, as shown by washing auriferous gravel.
18. Physics. any of the labels red, green, or blue that designate the three states in which quarks are expected to exist, or any of the corresponding labels for antiquark states. Compare quantum chromodynamics, quark model.
19. Printing. the amount of ink used.
20. Heraldry. a tincture other than a fur or metal, usually including gules, azure, vert, sable, and purpure.

Idioms

1. call to the colors, to summon for service in the armed forces:
2. change color, to blush as from embarrassment. to turn pale, as from fear:
3. with flying colors. flying colors.

adjective

1. involving, utilizing, yielding, or possessing color:

verb (used with object)

1. to give or apply color to; tinge; paint; dye:
2. to cause to appear different from the reality:
3. to give a special character or distinguishing quality to:

verb (used without object)

1. to take on or change color:
2. to flush; blush:

noun, adjective, verb (used with or without object)

1. color.

Origin of colours

1250-1300; Middle English col(o)ur Anglo-French (French couleur) Latin colōr- (stem of color) hue

Examples for colours

During the Boer War, Canadians flocked to the colours to defend the British Empire.

A blind man can form no notion of colours; a deaf man of sounds.

Some one asked Opie by what wonderful process he mixed his colours.

It was done at last: he had taken his stand before the boys—had "shown his colours."

The Oreades had music written on scrolls, in all the colours of the rainbow.

It had been too dark for me to distinguish the colours exactly.

She flies Dutch colours, but who can say whence she really comes?

For in what forms are the colours of the paint laid upon the surface of the material?

I have paid away about 100 ducats for colours and other things.

At Yarmouth, where he landed, every ship in the harbour hoisted her colours.