"skin color" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: skin colors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} skin color (countable and uncountable, plural skin colors)
  1. (literally) The color of human skin. Tags: countable, literally, uncountable Categories (topical): Skin Synonyms: skin colour Translations (color of human skin): 膚色 (Chinese Mandarin), 肤色 (fūsè) (Chinese Mandarin), barva pleti [feminine] (Czech), hudfarve [common-gender] (Danish), huidskleur [feminine] (Dutch), húðarlitur (Faroese), ihonväri (Finnish), teint [masculine] (French), couleur de la peau [masculine] (French), complexion [feminine] (French), Hautfarbe [feminine] (German), Teint [masculine] (German), 肌の色 (hada-no iro) (alt: はだのいろ) (Japanese), 肌色 (hadairo) (alt: はだいろ) (Japanese), түр-түс (tür-tüs) (Kazakh), warna kulit (Malay), hudfarge [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hamlet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), hudfarge [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), hamlet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), teint [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), цвет ко́жи (cvet kóži) [masculine] (Russian), hudfärg [common-gender] (Swedish), hudton [common-gender] (Swedish), колір шкіри (kolir škiry) [masculine] (Ukrainian), màu da (alt: 𬜝䏧) (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-skin_color-en-noun-0Yq5HHyH Disambiguation of Skin: 86 14 Disambiguation of 'color of human skin': 100 0
  2. (figuratively) One's ethnicity. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Translations (ethnicity): 種族 (Chinese Mandarin), 种族 (zhǒngzú) (Chinese Mandarin), 膚色 (Chinese Mandarin), 肤色 (fūsè) (Chinese Mandarin), barva pleti [feminine] (Czech), hudfarve [common-gender] (Danish), ihonväri (Finnish), couleur de la peau [masculine] (French), Hautfarbe [feminine] (German), 肌の色 (hada-no iro) (alt: はだのいろ) (Japanese), warna kulit (Malay), цвет ко́жи (cvet kóži) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-skin_color-en-noun-79RiEV5q Disambiguation of 'ethnicity': 0 100

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      "sense": "color of human skin",
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    {
      "alt": "𬜝䏧",
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      "sense": "color of human skin",
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "word": "種族"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "zhǒngzú",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "word": "种族"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "word": "膚色"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fūsè",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "word": "肤色"
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      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "ethnicity",
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      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "ethnicity",
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      "word": "hudfarve"
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      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "word": "ihonväri"
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Hautfarbe"
    },
    {
      "alt": "はだのいろ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hada-no iro",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "word": "肌の色"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "word": "warna kulit"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "cvet kóži",
      "sense": "ethnicity",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "цвет ко́жи"
    }
  ],
  "word": "skin color"
}

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