ring of color

1. 1.

   small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite

   Synonymsareola

   Broaderarea

   Part ofbreast

Questions about ring of color

What does ring of color mean?

ring of color means "small circular area such as that around the human nipple or an inflamed area around a pimple or insect bite".

What is another word for ring of color?

Close synonyms include areola. 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 ring of color a common word?

ring 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.