colour term

linguistics

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In language: General and specific designations
Colour words get their meanings from their mutual contrasts. The field of visually discriminable hues is very large and goes far beyond the resources of any vocabulary as it is normally used. Children learn the central or basic colour words of their language fairly early…
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In linguistics: Semantics
For example, the colour terms in particular languages constitute a lexical field, and the meaning of each term depends upon the place it occupies in the field. Although the denotation of each of the words “green,” “blue,” and “yellow” in English is somewhat imprecise at the boundaries, the…
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