colored
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- adjective
- /ˈkʌlərd/
- Slur
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[término ofensivo para una persona negra]
- In the past, many colored people faced discrimination and segregation in public spaces.
- colored people
- white and colored
- colored race
Not a woman, a man of color or LGBTQIA plus XYZ.
- Not a woman, a man of color or LGBTQIA plus XYZ.
- Are journalists of color getting a fair shake?
- Then Trump turned to his latest obsession, the four congresswoman of color known as the Squad.
- And, you know, now we're looking at a man of color in relation to white women.
- And he went on to say that your uniform, the color of your skin, will be your uniform.
- And what they said was I will have a student of color.
- So now she's a woman of color.
- Yes, she is a woman of color, but she identifies as a Black woman.
- Age, sex, color, dark skin, light skin.
- It was children of color only play night.
- Have we perhaps questioned too many brown skin coloured drivers?
- She said don't use that fountain it's colored only and I said why?
- They're all having a conversation and an ex colored man just overhears it.
- No nation on earth, she concludes, can live in peace with two different colors, black and white.
- But I don't bless people because of this color they skin.
Examples
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The historical exhibition highlighted the contributions of colored artists during the Civil Rights Movement.
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And then I put some kind of fall colored books that I have.
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Finally, she saw it, a light-colored form against the darker prairie grass.
Fiction book (1992) -
The pattern had dark vines upon which small tobacco-colored leaves seemed to wither.
Fiction book (1990) -
The wrought-iron grillwork remained, but the leaded patterns and the colored glass were gone.
Fiction book (1992) -
We learned about the struggles of colored communities in our history class.
Synonyms
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1.0
Relating to people with dark skin, often of African origin
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3.0
Having people of different races living or working together
Having very dark skin, fur, or feathers because of a natural dark substance
Antonyms
Compounds
- Informal
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5.1
A way of seeing things as better than they are and ignoring problems
A small bird with dull brown-gray feathers that lives in Mexico and Central America
- Specialized
An experience of seeing colors when you hear sounds, especially music
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Colored (adjective) comes from color, which means 'hue' or 'tone'. It was once used to label people by the color of their skin during segregation, and that use is now considered offensive and dated.