ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Many-coloured

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Many-coloured is an adjective meaning Composed of a great number of different colours; multicoloured; variegated.

Meaning

Composed of a great number of different colours; multicoloured; variegated.

Example Sentences

On it came, and with it came the glorious blinding cloud of many-coloured light, and stood before us for a space, turning, as it seemed to us, slowly round and round, and then, accompanied by its attendant pomp of sound, passed away I know not whither.
In the hollow, a large mezerian bush gave life to the green expanse; the anemones opened their many-coloured petals to the sun; the tulips were just opening; and there seemed scarcely any need of greater variety, or of sweeter smells, than those which the hyacinths afforded.

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Related dictionary entries include polychromatic, varicolored, multicolorous, varicolorous, motley, multicolour.

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