colored
- IPA[ˈkələrd]
美式
- having a color or colors, especially as opposed to being black, white, or neutral；imbued with an emotive or exaggerated quality
- a person who is wholly or partly of nonwhite descent.；a person of mixed ethnic origin speaking Afrikaans or English as their mother tongue.
noun: coloured, plural noun: coloureds
- 釋義
形容詞
- 1. having a color or colors, especially as opposed to being black, white, or neutral strings of colored lights brightly colored birds are easier to see
- ▪ imbued with an emotive or exaggerated quality highly colored examples were used by both sides
- 2. dated, offensive wholly or partly of nonwhite descent.
- ▪ dated, offensive relating to people who are wholly or partly of nonwhite descent a colored club
- 3. South African used as an ethnic label for people of mixed racial or ethnic origin.
名詞
- 1. dated, offensive a person who is wholly or partly of nonwhite descent.
- 2. South African a person of mixed ethnic origin speaking Afrikaans or English as their mother tongue.
- 3. clothes, sheets, etc. that are any color but white she wouldn't mix her whites with her coloreds on wash day
