单词 | colour word |
释义 | > as lemmascolour word colour word n. a word denoting a colour; cf. colour name n. ΚΠ 1877 19th Cent. Oct. 373 Of all the colour-words this..has the largest and most varied application in Homer. 1921 G. Jekyll Colour Schemes for Flower Garden 80 It is not as if the right colour-words were wanting, for the language is rich in them—violet, lavender, lilac, mauve, purple. 1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating iii. 35 The Tarahumara in northern Mexico have five basic color words, including one term siyonomi, which covers both green and blue. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct iii. 62 And where languages do differ in their color words, they differ predictably, not according to the idiosyncratic tastes of some word-coiner. < as lemmas |
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