Adjective

(en adjective)

(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.

*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)

, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

(label) First in a series or copies/versions.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}

(label) Newly created.

(label) Fresh, different.

(label) Pioneering.

(label) Having as its origin.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having a particular or kind of color.

* The room was colored''' red, with a dark-'''colored rug.

Having prominent colors; colorful.

* The singer wore a colored shirt.

Influenced pervasively but subtly.

* My opinions are colored by my upbringing.

Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black.

* Being of an older generation, they considered themselves "colored ladies".

Of neither black nor white skin color.

* Most of the colored community speaks Afrikaans, whereas languages like Xhosa or Venda are typically spoken by blacks and English is spoken mostly by whites.

(chiefly, historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense).

a black''' drinking fountain''; ''a '''black hospital