Multicolour

Definition: Multicolour

Multicolour

Adjective

1. Having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; "a jester dressed in motley"; "the painted desert,"; "a particolored dress"; "a piebald horse"; "pied daisies".

Synonyms: Multicolour

Synonyms: motley (adj), multicolor (adj), multicolored (adj), multicoloured (adj), painted (adj), particolored (adj), particoloured (adj), piebald (adj), pied (adj), varicolored (adj), varicoloured (adj). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: chromotype (industry, meteorology & standards), chromotypography, color printing, colour printing, CRT display with multicolour display (computing), Halley Multicolour Camera (geography, transportation), multicolor printing (industry, meteorology & standards), multicolour finish (chemical industry, metallurgy), multicolour printing (publishing & graphic artsindustry, meteorology & standards), multicolour scanner (computing), polychromy (publishing & graphic arts), typographic color printing (industry, meteorology & standards), typographic colour printing.

Crosswords: Multicolour

Specialty definitions using "multicolour": banknote paper ♦ currency paper. (references)

"Multicolour" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Multicolour" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Expressions using "multicolour": CRT display with multicolour display ♦ multicolour finish ♦ multicolour process printing ♦ multicolour scanner. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "multicolour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		me ngjyra (chromatic, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, non-ferrous), shumëngjyrësh (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references)

Arabic		‏كثير الألوان (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, various), ‏متعدد الألوان (fancy, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychromic, varicolored, versicolored, versicoloured), ‏تعددية الألوان (multicolor). (various references)

Bulgarian		разноцветен (motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), многоцветен (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, multiflorous, polychromatic, polychrome, rainbow). (various references)

Chinese		多色 (Multicolor). (various references)

Danish		kromotypi (chromotype, chromotypography, color printing, colour printing, multicolor printing, multicolour printing, typographic color printing, typographic colour printing), farvetryk (chromotype, chromotypography, color printing, colour printing, multicolor printing, multicolour printing, typographic color printing, typographic colour printing). (various references)

Dutch		kleurenboekdruk (chromotype, chromotypography, color printing, colour printing, multicolor printing, multicolour printing, typographic color printing, typographic colour printing). (various references)

Finnish		moniväri. (various references)

French		multicolore (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured). (various references)

German		Mehrfarbendruck (chromotype, chromotypography, color printing, colour printing, multicolor printing, multicolour printing, trapping, typographic color printing, typographic colour printing, wet printing), Farbendruck (chromotype, chromotypography, color printing, colour printing, multicolor printing, multicolour printing, typographic color printing, typographic colour printing). (various references)

Hebrew		סס�'ו� יות (multicolor, picturesqueness, variegation). (various references)

Hungarian		tarka (brindled, calico, chequered, colorful, colourful, dappled, fancy, freaked, gaudy, laced, medley, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, Pinto, polychromatic, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), sokszínû (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, polychromatic, polychrome, varicolored, varicoloured). (various references)

Italian		multicolore (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, parti-colored, parti-coloured, varicolored, varicoloured). (various references)

Pig Latin		ulticolourmay

Portuguese		multicor (motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured), multicolorido (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured). (various references)

Romanian		multicolor (fancy, many-colored, many-coloured, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references)

Russian		цветной (bandanna, chromatic, colored, coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, nonferrous, non-ferrous, octoroon, painted, palettized), многоцветный (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, polychromatic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		raznobojan (colorful, colourful, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), šaren (gay, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, printed, skewbald, speckled, spotted, variegated). (various references)

Spanish		multicolor (candy-striped, many-colored, many-coloured, motley, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, particolored, particoloured, rainbow). (various references)

Swedish		flerfärgstryck (multicolor process printing, multicolored, multicolour process printing, multicoloured, multi-coloured, process-printing). (various references)

Ukrainian		кольоровий (chromatic, multicolor, non-european, non-ferrous), багатобарвність (multicolor), багатобарвний (multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, rainbow, varicolored, varicoloured). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-l-l-m-o-o-r-t-u-u"
	-1 letter: multicolor.
	-4 letters: couloir, criollo, motoric, outroll, rollout, timolol, turmoil.
	-5 letters: colour, corium, cumuli, curium, lictor, loculi, octroi, ormolu, toluic, toluol, tumour, tumuli, ultimo.
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