color – English noun declension

English noun forms of color

Noun: color
Singularcolor
Pluralcolors

Sample Sentences

  • Humans and birds can perceive color.
  • Most languages have names for the colors black, white, red, and green.
  • What color are your bf's eyes?
  • We should paint the wall another color.
  • Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • The accident victim's face was white, drained of all color.
  • This film is broadcast in color. Most people dream in color, but some dream in black and white.
  • The artist took out her colors and began work on a landscape.
  • Color has been a sensitive issue in many societies.
  • […] her very embarrassment wore a graceful air; her high colour had softened down to a warm, delicate tint; and her dress, which looked beautifully new and fresh, was in good taste, and showed her off to advantage. [1864, Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham, Late Laurels, volumes 1-2, page 117:]
  • color commentator
  • color commentary
  • There is a great deal of colour in his writing.
  • a bit of local color
  • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […] [1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 377, column 2:]
  • Whenever Marx himself went into detail, he certainly did not push his hypothesis to such an absurd extreme. He did, however, coin some formulas that gave colour to this simplistic interpretation. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 370:]
  • Could you give me some color with regards to which products made up the mix of revenue for this quarter?
  • The loss of their colors destroyed the regiment's morale.
  • The colors were raised over the new territory.
  • The arrival of the British Consul at Bangkok shall not take place before the ratification of this Treaty, nor until ten vessels owned by British subjects, sailing under British colours and with British papers, shall have entered the port of Bangkok for purposes of trade, subsequent to the signing of this Treaty. [1856, “Treaty signed April 18, 1855; ratified April 5, 1856”, in Treaty of friendship and commerce between Great Britain and Siam, Bangkok: J. H. Chandler, page 7:]
  • Both of the perpetrators were wearing colors.
  • He was awarded colors for his football.
  • At the far end of the continuum, Roger Seagraves collected personal items from people he'd murdered, or assassinated rather, since he'd done it under the color of serving his country. [2011, David Baldacci, The Collectors:]
  • Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
  • They held possession under color of title.
  • The only thing which this defendant is accused of doing is that he excluded this boy from the school, and he did it under the color of the statute relating to the subject, and did it because he was a colored boy. [1882, The Ohio Law Journal, volume 2, page 396:]
  • no such action, suit, or any other process or proceeding thereupon shall at any time be impeached, stayed, or delayed by or under colour or pretence of any privilege of Parliament. [1770, “Parliamentary Privilege Act 1770”, in legislation.gov.uk:]
  • He smelted Wells’s colour before it was valued, and by the time anybody saw it, it had been poured into bars and stamped with the Reserve seal. [2013, Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries, London: Granta, published 2014, →ISBN, page 184:]
  • The local hero is getting color in tonight's spectacle.
  • In other words, Brahms saves the higher violin color for the more important foreground statement and assigns the soft swirling background to middle-register violins and violas, while the cellos dominate in their best voice. [1982, Samuel Adler, The Study of Orchestration, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1982, →ISBN, page 115:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *-s
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
6. Proto-Indo-European *ḱélōs
7. Proto-Italic *kelōs
8. Old Latin colōs
9. Latin color
10. Old French color
11. Anglo-Norman colurbor.
12. Middle English colour
13. English color
14. From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur.
15. Largely displaced English blee, Middle English blee (“color”), from Old English blēo. Also partially replaced Old English hīew (“color”) and its descendants (English hue), which is less often used in this sense.
16. The spelling color was popularized in modern American English by Noah Webster, to match the spelling of the word's Latin etymon, and make all American spellings of the derivatives consistent (colorimeter, coloration, colorize, colorless, etc). See: Middle English Nouns 'colour', Latin Nouns 'color'.