coloured

Word family  noun colour/color colouring/coloring coloration colourant/colorant colourist/colorist adjective coloured/colored discoloured/discolored colourful/colorful ≠ colourless/colorless multicoloured colour/color verb colour/color adverb colourfully/colorfully ≠ colourlessly/colorlessly

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++col·oured1 British English, colored American English /ˈkʌləd $ -ərd/ ●●○ adjective  1. brightly/highly/richly etc coloured having a bright colour such as red, blue, or yellow etc, or a deep shade of a particular colour, but not black, white, or plain 色彩鲜艳的/浓郁的/浓艳的等2  having a colour other than black or white 有色的，有…颜色的 coloured glass 有色玻璃 a cream-coloured sweater 米色毛衣3. taboo old-fashionedINSULT a very offensive word used to describe someone who is a member of a race of people with dark or black skin. Do not use this word. 有色人种的4. SARused in South Africa to describe someone whose parents or grandparents were not of the same race as each other 〔在南非指白人与有色人种所生的〕混血人种的

Examples from the Corpus

coloured• The front door was painted blue and had a coloured glass panel in it.• The cages were full of brightly- coloured tropical birds.coloured2 British English, colored American English noun [countable]  1. taboo old-fashionedINSULTRACE a very offensive word for someone who is a member of a race of people with dark or black skin. Do not use this word. 有色人种的人2. a person whose parents or grandparents were not of the same race as each other – used in South Africa 混血人种的人〔用于南非〕

col·oured1 adjectivecoloured2 nounChineseSyllable  

a yellow Corpus red, as bright etc, colour having or blue, such

coloured

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++coloured1  → variant of Cape Coloured at Cape Coloured2  → past tense of colour at colour

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coloured

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col‧oured¹ British English, colored American English /ˈkʌləd $ -ərd/ adjective1. brightly/highly/richly etc coloured having a bright colour such as red, blue, or yellow etc, or a deep shade of a particular colour, but not black, white, or plain
2. having a colour other than black or white:
    coloured glass
    a cream-coloured sweater
3. taboo old-fashioned a very offensive word used to describe someone who is a member of a race of people with dark or black skin. Do not use this word.
4. used in South Africa to describe someone whose parents or grandparents were not of the same race as each other

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coloured² British English, colored American English noun [countable]
1. taboo old-fashioned a very offensive word for someone who is a member of a race of people with dark or black skin. Do not use this word.
2. a person whose parents or grandparents were not of the same race as each other – used in South Africa

Coloured
Cape Col·oured /···/ˌ ˈ/ (also Coloured) noun [countable]
a South African person of mixed race with black, white, or east Asian origins