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• (US) enPR: ʹkŭlərd, IPA: /ˈkʌləɹd/

colored

1. (American spelling) Having a color.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:colored

   Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.

2. Having a particular color or kind of color.

   The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

3. Having prominent colors; colorful.

   The singer wore a colored shirt.

4. Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
5. (US, now, dated and usually, offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
   • 1898, William H. Chenery, The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (colored) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865, page 38:

     […] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.

6. (South Africa, sometimes, capitalized) 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.)

   Synonyms: Eurafrican

   Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.

7. (chiefly, historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

   a colored drinking fountain

   a colored hospital

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC ↗:

     New Orleans is a very dull town. It’s against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.

• Portuguese: colorido
• Russian: цветно́й

• French: coloré, de couleur
• German: farbig
• Portuguese: colorido/pintado de
• Russian: цветно́й

• French: coloré, de couleur, en couleur
• German: farbig, bunt
• Portuguese: colorido
• Russian: цветно́й

• French: marqué, teinté

• French: de couleur
• German: farbig
• Portuguese: de cor
• Russian: цветно́й
• Spanish: de color

• French: métis
• German: farbig
• Russian: цветно́й

colored (plural coloreds)

1. (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
2. (South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.

   Synonyms: Eurafrican

3. (US, dated and offensive, American spelling) A colored (nonwhite) person.

• French: personne de couleur
• German: Farbiger, Farbige
• Russian: цветно́й

• French: couleurs

1. (American spelling) Simple past tense and past participle of color

colored (not comparable)