| Definitions | | colored |
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noun
- (demeaning or potentially offensive) A colored person.
verb
- (past of, color)
adjective
- Having a particular :w:color, color or kind of color.
- The room was red, with a dark- rug.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- The singer wore a shirt.
- Influenced pervasively but subtly.
- My opinions are by my upbringing.
- (U.S., older usage, now demeaning) Of skin color other than the white, particularly black.
- Being of an older generation, they considered themselves " ladies"''
- (South Africa, potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color.
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