PRIMARY COLOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primary colour mean? 

• PRIMARY COLOUR (noun)
  The noun PRIMARY COLOUR has 1 sense:

1. any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing

  Familiarity information: PRIMARY COLOUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMARY COLOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of three colors from which all others can be obtained by mixing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

primary color; primary colour

Hypernyms ("primary colour" is a kind of...):

color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "primary colour"):

primary color for pigments; primary colour for pigments (any of three pigments from which all colors can be obtained by mixing)

primary color for light; primary colour for light (any of three primary colors of light from which all colors can be obtained by additive mixing)