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Noun Concept
Categories: African-American society, History of racism in the United States, Race in the United States, Anti-African and anti-black slurs, Person of color
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colored person  colored  coloured  coloured person  Colored people
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A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive WordNet 3.0
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A United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Colored is a racial descriptor historically used in the United States during the Jim Crow Era to refer to an African American. Wikipedia
A potentially offensive term used in the U.S. to refer to people of certain ethnicities Wikipedia Disambiguation
IS A
Black
DERIVATION
colored
USAGE DOMAIN
archaism
Canadian English spelling
Australian English orthography
British English orthography
American English orthography
WordNet 3.0
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colored person, colored
Open English WordNet
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colored person, colored, coloured person, coloured
Wikipedia
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colored
Wikidata
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Colored
Wikipedia Redirections
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Colored folk, Colored People, Colored people, Coloreds

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