Added 8 October 2026
color
/ˈkʌl.ə/ noun
In Latin: color Wiktionary
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about color at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
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A visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect.
a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light
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Interest and variety and intensity.
the Puritan Period was lacking in color
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The timbre of a musical sound.
the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music
verb
adjective
Origin
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc).
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