person of color

1. 1.

   (formal) any non-European non-white person

   Synonymsperson of colour

   Broaderperson

   NarrowerAsianAmerindianwog

   formality

Questions about person of color

What does person of color mean?

person of color means "(formal) any non-European non-white person".

What is another word for person of color?

Close synonyms include person of colour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is person of color a common word?

person of color is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.