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Definition: Multicoloured |
MulticolouredAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "multicoloured" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
Synonyms: MulticolouredSynonyms: motley (adj), multicolor (adj), multicolored (adj), multicolour (adj), painted (adj), particolored (adj), particoloured (adj), piebald (adj), pied (adj), varicolored (adj), varicoloured (adj). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Multicoloured Swap Shop (1974) | |
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| "Pretty flowers" by Stella Reese Commentary: "Multicoloured double tulips." |
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| "Multicoloured" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Multicoloured" is used about 60 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 60 | 43,597 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "multicoloured": motley multicolor culticolour multicolored multicoloured painted particolored particoloured piebald pied varicolored varicoloured. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
multicoloured circle | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "multicoloured"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | me ngjyra (chromatic, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, non-ferrous), shumëngjyrësh (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Arabic | كثير الألوان (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, various), متعدد الألوان (fancy, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, polychromatic, polychromic, varicolored, versicolored, versicoloured). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разноцветен (motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), многоцветен (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, multiflorous, polychromatic, polychrome, rainbow). (various references) | |
Czech | mnohobarevný (multicolored), vícebarevný (multicolored, polychromatic). (various references) | |
Dutch | veelkleurig, bont (fur, fur coat, fur piece). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bunta. (various references) | |
Faeroese | flekkutur. (various references) | |
Finnish | monivärinen. (various references) | |
French | multicolore (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour). (various references) | |
German | mehrfarbig (multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome, varicolored, varicoloured), vielfarbig (many-coloured, multi coloured, multicolored, parti-colored, polychromatic, polychrome), kunterbunt (checkered, indiscriminate, motley, multicolored, piecemeal, varied), bunt (colored, colorful, coloured, colourful, many-coloured, miscellaneously, motley, mottled, multicolored, parti-colored, spotted, stained, varicolored, varied). (various references) | |
Greek | με πολλά χρώματα (multicolored), πολύχρωμοσ (kaleidoscopic, multicolored, pavonine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | גונוני (diversified, variegated), רב צבעים (multicolored, polychromatic), צבעוני (colourful, polychromatic, variegated), ססגוני (colourful, gorgeous, motley, multicolored, picturesque, varicolored, variegated). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tarka (brindled, calico, chequered, colorful, colourful, dappled, fancy, freaked, gaudy, laced, medley, mottled, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, piebald, pied, Pinto, polychromatic, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Italian | multicolore (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, parti-colored, parti-coloured, varicolored, varicoloured), variopinto (multicolored, parti-colored, parti-coloured), variegato (dappled, diversified, multicolored, streaked, variegated). (various references) | |
Manx | yl-daahagh (many-coloured, polychromatic). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulticolouredmay.(various references) | |
Polish | wielobarwny. (various references) | |
Portuguese | multicor (motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour). (various references) | |
Romanian | multicolor (fancy, many-colored, many-coloured, motley, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, particolored, particoloured, pied, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated). (various references) | |
Russian | цветной (bandanna, chromatic, colored, coloured, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, nonferrous, non-ferrous, octoroon, painted, palettized). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mnogobojan (colorful, colourful, multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome), raznobojan (colorful, colourful, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), šaren (gay, multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, 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, multicolour, particolored, particoloured, rainbow). (various references) | |
Swedish | flerfärgstryck (multicolor process printing, multicolored, multicolour process printing, multi-coloured, process-printing), flerfärgad (multicolored). (various references) | |
Turkish | renk renk (motley, multicolored, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), rengârenk (colorful, colourful, harlequin, lithochromatic, motley, multicolored, parti-colored, parti-coloured, party-colored, party-coloured, splashy, varicolored, varicoloured, variegated), alacalı (dappled, harlequin, mottled, multicolored, piebald), çok renkli (harlequin, multicolored, polychromatic, polychrome). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | багатоколірний (many-colored, many-coloured, multicolored), багатобарвний (multicolor, multicolored, multicolour, polychromatic, polychrome, polychromic, rainbow, varicolored, varicoloured). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nhiều màu; sặc sỡ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-l-m-o-o-r-t-u-u" | |
-1 letter: multicolored. | |
-3 letters: multicolor. | |
-4 letters: dulcimore, outrolled, reticulum, tellurium, turmoiled. | |
-5 letters: clotured, cloudier, cloudlet, coeditor, collider, colluder, coloured, cultured, decolour, dolomite, dulcimer, lemuroid, lodicule, lordotic, loudlier, lutecium, microdot, morticed, mouldier, outcried, telluric, trollied. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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