Definition of Black
Nouns
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
- Synonyms:
- Joseph Black
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chemist
a scientist who specializes in chemistry
popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
- Synonyms:
- Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black
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actress
a female actor
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- Synonyms:
- Black person, Negro, Negroid, blackamoor
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Negress
a Black woman or girl
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Black man
a man who is Black
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soul brother
a fellow Black man
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boy
(ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man
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Black woman
a woman who is Black
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colored, colored person
a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive
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darkey, darkie, darky
(ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people
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coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, spade
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
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Tom, Uncle Tom
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
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picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child
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individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being
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person of color, person of colour
(formal) any non-European non-white person
Vocabulary Lists for Black
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island »(2273 words)
Vocabulary study guide for Robert Louis Stevenson's...
- seamanly
- squire
- rum
- stockade
- clove hitch
Clint Easwood - The New Yorker March 2010 (1) »(1536 words)
- crapper
- convolute
- self-reproof
- cowhand
- patness
Other Spellings
Words that contain Black
American black bear
animal black
antiblack
Asian black grouse
Asiatic black bear
Australian blacksnake
black
Black Africa
Black African
Black American
black-and-blue
black and gold garden spider
black-and-tan
Black and Tan
black-and-tan coonhound
black-and-tan terrier
black-and-white
black and white
black Angus

