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Pronunciation guide for colored
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of colored with real speech in context.
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- Real speech example
- Mzamo Masito
the black population and colored because South Africa
- Definition summary
- Having a color.
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How to pronounce colored
Mzamo Masito
the black population and colored because South Africa
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “colored”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Having a color.
- (in combination) Having a particular color or kind of color.
- Having prominent colors; colorful.
- Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.
- (US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.
- (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, sometimes capitalized) Belonging to a multiracial ethnic group or category, having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian). (Under apartheid, used as a metadescription for mixed-race people and peoples such as the Cape Coloureds.)
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).
- [Noun]
- (laundry) A colored article of clothing.
- (South Africa) A person having ancestry from more than one of the racial groups of Southern Africa (black, white, and Asian); a colored person.
- (US, dated and offensive) A colored (nonwhite) person.
- [Verb]
- simple past and past participle of color
Practice Nearby Words
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Similar Sounds
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