English Explanatory Dictionary

polychrome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Using multiple or many colours.
  2. Executed in the manner of polychromy.
noun
  1. A piece of multicolored pottery.
  2. esculin (so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions)
verb
  1. To paint or dye with multiple colours.
  2. To divide (a dye etc.) into multiple colours.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-polychrome.wav

Word forms

polychrome polychromes polychroming polychromed

Etymology

From poly- + -chrome.

Synonyms

polychromatic multicolor multicoloured motley variegated

Translations

Bulgarian: многоцветен Catalan: policromat French: polychrome Polish: polichromia Romanian: policrom
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