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person of colour
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Person of color
Person of color (plural: people of color, persons of color, sometimes abbreviated POC) is a term used primarily in the United States to describe any person who is not white. The term encompasses all non-white groups, emphasizing common experiences of racism. The term is not equivalent in use to "colored", which was previously used in the US as a term for African Americans only.
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person of colour
Noun
1. (formal) any non-European non-White person
(synonym) person of color
(hypernym) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul
(hyponym) Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
(member-holonym) color, colour, people of color, people of colour
(classification) formality
