## Meanings
1. The quality of an object, such as red, blue, or green, that comes from the light it reflects.
2. To add colour to something, for example with pens or paint.
3. A material such as paint or dye used to give something colour.
4. Interest, variety, and liveliness.

## Examples
- What is your favourite color?
- The child colored the drawings.
- I used a different color for the trim.
- Her funny stories added color to the report.

## Synonyms
- blee
- hue
- shade
- tincture
- tint

## Antonyms
- decolor

## Derived Forms
- anticolor
- bicolor
- bodycolor
- color-blind
- color-code
- color-coded
- color-coordinate
- color-flavor
- color-guard
- color-octet
- color-proud
- color-screw

## Related Forms
- colorably
- coloration
- tincture

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: colour
- Root: colur
- Root: color

## Etymology
From Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. 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. 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).

## AI Etymology
color is an adjective, noun, and verb. It is from Middle English colour, color, borrowed from Anglo-Norman colur, from Old French colour, color, from Latin color. Doublet of couleur. 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. 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). Historical forms in the chain include colour (Middle English), colur (Anglo-Norman), colour (Old French), and color (Latin). Current senses include the quality of an object, such as red, blue, or green, that comes from the light it reflects, to add colour to something, for example with pens or paint, and a material such as paint or dye used to give something colour. Derived forms include anticolor, bicolor, bodycolor, color-blind, and color-code. Related words include colorably, coloration, and tincture.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Art & Music

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