English Dictionary

colored

/ˈkʌləɹd/

adj

(American spelling) Having a color. / Having a particular color or kind of color. / Having prominent colors; colorful. / Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

The walls of the room were painted in various colored shades.

意味（1）

(American spelling) Having a color.

Wash colored items separately from whites and darks to prevent the colors from bleeding.

意味（2）

Having a particular color or kind of color.

The room was red, with a dark-colored rug.

意味（3）

Having prominent colors; colorful.

The singer wore a colored shirt.

意味（4）

Biased; pervasively (but potentially subtly) influenced in a particular way.

Mr. Brewer gave me his version of the history of the Conference of Studio Unions. It appeared to me then and appears to me now to have been a very colored view.

意味（5）

(US, now dated and usually offensive) Of skin color other than white; in particular, black.

[…] a beautiful silk standard donated to the Third Battalion by the colored ladies of the city of New York, was formally presented to the battalion.

意味（6）

(South Africa, 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.)

Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.

意味（7）

(chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

a colored drinking fountain