colored
[ kuhl-erd ]
adjective
having color.
Older Use: Offensive. belonging wholly or in part to any group of nonwhite people, especially to Black people.
noun
Older Use: Offensive.
a Black person.
the colored, Black people as a group.
Origin of colored
1usage note For colored
2, 3, 7. See Black1.
Other words from colored
- half-colored, adjective
- un·col·ored, adjective
- un·col·ored·ly, adverb
- un·col·ored·ness, noun
- un·der·col·ored, adjective
- well-colored, adjective
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