PEOPLE OF COLOUR

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 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)

Sense 1

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)