PEOPLE OF COLOUR
Dictionary entry overview: What does people of colour mean? • PEOPLE OF COLOUR (noun)
The noun PEOPLE OF COLOUR has 1 sense:
1. a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
Familiarity information: PEOPLE OF COLOUR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PEOPLE OF COLOUR (noun)
Meaning:
A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
people of color; people of colour; colour; color
Hypernyms ("people of colour" is a kind of...):
race (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock)
Meronyms (members of "people of colour"):
person of color; person of colour ((formal) any non-European non-White person)
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