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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
tricolor is a noun and adjective meaning "a flag having three colored stripes (especially the French flag)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
having or involving three colors
“trichromatic vision”
“a trichromatic printing process”
“trichromatic staining is the staining of tissue samples differentially in three colors”
“tricolor plumage”
“a tricolor process in photography”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tricolor come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.