Colored

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  • adjective. Having color.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of or belonging to a racial group not categorized as white.
  • adjective. Black or African-American.
  • adjective. Of mixed racial descent.
  • adjective. Of or belonging to a population grouping made up of persons of mixed racial descent or of certain other nonwhite descent, especially as distinguished during apartheid from blacks, Asians, or whites.
  • adjective. Distorted or biased, as by irrelevant or incorrect information.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A person belonging to a racial group not categorized as white.
  • noun. A black person, especially an African American.
  • noun. A person of mixed racial descent.
  • noun. A person belonging to the Coloured population grouping, especially during apartheid.
  • noun. Pieces of laundry that are not light in color.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having a color; dyed; tinged; painted or stained.
  • Having a distinguishing hue.
  • In botany, of any hue but green: as, a colored leaf.
  • Having a dark or black color of the skin; black or mulatto; specifically, in the United States, belonging wholly or partly to the African race; having or partaking of the color of the negro. In census-tables, etc., the term is often used to include Indians, Chinese, etc.
  • Hence— Of or pertaining to the negroes, or to persons partly of negro origin: as, the colored vote.
  • Having a specious appearance; deceptive: as, a colored statement.—Colored glass. See glass.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
  • adjective. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well.
  • adjective. Of some other color than black or white.
  • adjective. Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood. Opposite of white and caucasian.
  • adjective. Of some other color than green.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having a particular color or kind of color.
  • adjective. Having prominent colors; colorful.
  • adjective. Influenced pervasively but subtly.
  • adjective. Of skin color other than the white, particularly black.
  • adjective. Of neither black nor white skin color.
  • noun. A colored person.
  • noun. A colored article of clothing.
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of color.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
  • adjective. having skin rich in melanin pigments
  • noun. a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
  • adjective. (used of color) artificially produced; not natural
  • adjective. favoring one person or side over another
  • Word Usage
    "I said somewhere in the early part of this narrative that because the colored man looked at everything through the prism of his relationship to society as a _colored_ man, and because most of his mental efforts ran through the narrow channel bounded by his rights and his wrongs, it was to be wondered at that he has progressed so broadly as he has."
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