woman of color

noun

plural women of color

: a woman whose skin pigmentation is other than and especially darker than what is considered characteristic of people typically defined as white (see white entry 1 sense 2a) : a woman who is of a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a) other than white or who is of mixed race

… Sen. Kamala Harris of California, will become the first woman of color to accept a major party's vice presidential nomination on Wednesday.

—Steve Peoples

In reality the 19th Amendment failed to enfranchise thousands of American women of color—Black, Asian, Latina and Native American.

—Anna Bloom

Examples of woman of color in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Charles is also the founder of a creative collective, Future of Creatives, which is focused on amplifying women of color and other underrepresented creators. —Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025

Patel’s long-term vision is to scale Beauty CEO University into a global hub for beauty business education and mentor women of color entrepreneurs. —Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

All those promises about hiring and promoting women of color that sounded so good a few years ago when everyone was posting black squares on Instagram. —Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 7 Sep. 2025

Specifically, the phrase may have roots in ballroom culture, an LGBTQIA+ subculture founded by Black and Latino communities in the mid-20th century, according to 21 Ninety, an online publication dedicated to telling stories by and for women of color. —Greta Cross, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1791, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for woman of color

• bicolor
• concolor
• discolor
• tricolor
• colour
• culler
• duller
• multicolor
• technicolor
• unicolor
• versicolor
• watercolor