language note: The spelling technicolour is also used in British English for meaning [sense 2].
1. uncountable noun
Technicolor is a system of colour photography used in making cinema films.
[trademark]
...films in Technicolor.
2. uncountable noun
You can use technicolor to describe real or imagined scenes when you want to emphasize that they are very colourful, especially in an exaggerated way.
[informal]
I was seeing it all in glorious technicolour: mountains, valleys, lakes, summer sunshine.
...technicolor dreams.
Technicolor in British English
(ˈtɛknɪˌkʌlə)
noun
trademark
the process of producing colour film by means of superimposing synchronized films of the same scene, each of which has a different colour filter, to obtain the desired mix of colour
Technicolor in American English
(ˈtɛknɪˌkʌlər)
US
trademark
1.
a process of making color films by combining several separate, synchronized negatives each of which is sensitive to a single color
noun [t-]
2.
this process
3.
bright, intense colors
Derived forms
technicolored (ˈtechniˌcolored)
adjective
Examples of 'Technicolor' in a sentence
Technicolor
The reports of Brinkman's death came back to me in vivid Technicolor.
Stuart Harrison BETTER THAN THIS (2002)
Their work and the work of so many others had created Paloma Blanca, and the reality exceeded even his most Technicolor dreams.
St. James, Ian FINAL RESORT
Above them to the left, the Technicolor grandeur of a stained-glass window was fading into black.