Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable)A water-soluble pigment or paint.

    Jim's aunt uses only watercolours to paint her pictures.

    water-soluble pigment

  2. (countable)A painting made by using such pigment.

    Jim's aunt paints beautiful watercolours.

    Wasserfarbe, Aquarell, Aquarellbild

    акваре́льakvarélʹ, акваре́льakvarélʹ

    акваре́льakvarélʹ, акваре́льakvarélʹ

  3. (uncountable)This kind of painting as a genre.

    I'm not a big fan of watercolour; I much prefer oil painting.

    Wasserfarbenmalerei

    акваре́льakvarélʹ

    акваре́льakvarélʹ

    a painting produced with watercolors

Examples

21 sentences
  1. He prefers to paint in watercolours.

    deEr malt am liebsten mit Aquarellfarben.

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  2. I especially love painting in watercolour.

    deBesonders gerne male ich mit Wasserfarben.

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  3. This paper can handle watercolour well.

    ruНа эту бумагу хорошо ложится акварель.

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  4. These watercolours are very high quality.

    deDiese Wasserfarben sind von sehr hoher Qualität.

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  5. These watercolours are of very high quality.

    deDiese Wasserfarben sind von sehr hoher Qualität.

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Translations

9 languages
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Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From water + colour.

From water + colour.

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Forms

plural: watercolours

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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