skin color
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1.7
- noun
- /skɪn ˈkʌlər/
- US
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color de piel
- We have different skin colors that reflect our diverse backgrounds.
- skin color and gender
- traits like skin color
- different skin colors
Is it because you see your skin colour as a burden?
- Is it because you see your skin colour as a burden?
- We had the same skin color with the same accent.
- They don't understand how skin color has has played a role.
- Take your skin colour and celebrate it.
- And the breathing changes, the skin color changes, breathing gets kind of jagged.
- I describe John Ashcroft's skin color when he's in intensive care.
- To demean people that don't have the same skin color that they have.
- How about this rule that if you're black, if you have skin color like mine, ish.
- But you know, and that's because of our skin colour.
- It was just differences in phenotype, in blood, hair type, bone, skin color and the like.
- But beyond that, the fact that when you don't describe someone's skin color, a lot of people just default to white.
Examples
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Her skin color can tell us how to proceed.
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Don't allow skin color to ever become a problem for you.
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Look at my skin color.
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We have different skin color.
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Besides, it's closer to your skin colour.
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We had the same skin color with the same accent.
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You can literally see where my skin colour starts and where it ends.
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Take your skin colour and celebrate it.
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I do not like to be judged by my skin color or my accent.
Academic text (1998) -
Finally, she tapped my arm and said that we may have different skin colors, but underneath beats the same heart.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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4.0
The natural color and look of the skin, especially the face
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2.0
The colors that appear on something
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5.2
Natural color of skin, hair, or leaves caused by pigments
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5.0
The pattern of colors on something that affects how it looks
How Dark
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the natural color of a person's skin' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'skin' (the body's external covering) with 'color' (a visual attribute). This noun-noun compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward semantics, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Skin color comes from a simple, literal idea: skin (the outer part of the body) and color (the shade you can see). People have used these words together for a long time to talk about a person's natural shade, so today skin color means the 'natural color of a person's skin'.