colored person
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- noun
- /ˈkoʊlərd ˈpɜrsən/
- Slur
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[término ofensivo para una persona negra]
- Very few motels in Memphis would accept blacks, or Negroes, or colored people, even in 1968.
Examples
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Colored people, however, are still celebrating with a day gathering, a feast that can linger into the night.
Fiction book (1992) -
Then, just before the war, whole blocks were let to colored people.
Fiction book (1992) -
My father still refers to his own race as "Colored people."
Blog text (17) -
Most of the people knew him, yet he could not help but duck his gray head, shy about being the only colored person present.
Fiction book (1995) -
"They were run mostly by colored people and served mostly barbecued pork."
Fiction book (1996) -
When you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who was asking daddy why do white people treat colored people so mean?
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It is quite likely there will not be a colored person in Baxter County within a year.
Academic text (2010) -
They were bringing in swarms of colored people to work during the war.
Fiction book (1992) -
The novel suggests that apartheid has left an enduring legacy that continues to exert its influence; the old geographical racial and power divisions still abound, even if some middle-class black and colored people have moved into the government and the suburbs.
Academic text (2008) -
Before the civil rights movement, many colored people faced discrimination in schools and public spaces.
Synonyms
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A person with dark skin whose family comes from Africa
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'colored' in its historical US racial sense + 'person' yields 'a person who is colored' (i.e., a Black person). Although the phrase is offensive and dated, its semantic content is predictable from the constituents for a learner who knows the racial sense of 'colored'.
Etymology
Colored person may come from the 1800s and early 1900s in the United States, when people were often described by their skin color and 'colored' was used as a public label. Because colored appeared on signs and in laws to keep 'Black people' separate, the phrase is now seen as 'offensive' and 'outdated'.