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Definition of coloured adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

coloured

adjective
 
 
/ˈkʌləd/
 
/ˈkʌlərd/
(US English colored)
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  1.  
     (often in compounds) having a particular colour or different colours
    • brightly coloured balloons
    • He uses ink and coloured pencils in his drawings.
    • The street was ablaze with coloured lights.
    • vases made of coloured glass
    • dark-coloured jeans
    • She was wearing a cream-coloured suit.
    • The words are written in a different-coloured ink.
    see also light-coloured, multicoloured, rose-coloured, straw-coloured
    Extra Examples
    • She wore a richly coloured silk dress.
    • variously coloured birds
    Topics Colours and Shapesb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    adverb
    • boldly
    • brightly
    • brilliantly
    • …
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  2. (old-fashioned, offensive) a word used to describe a person who is not white, which is now considered offensive
  3. Coloured
     (in South Africa) having parents who are of different races
See coloured in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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