Black

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Black

1	n	British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
2	n	popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
3	n	a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Black

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a Black woman or girl; Black man
a man who is Black; Black woman
a woman who is Black; colored, colored person
a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive; darkey, darkie, darky
(ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people; coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, spade
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; Tom, Uncle Tom
(ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites; picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child; soul brother
a fellow Black man; boy
(ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man

Type of:: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being; person of color, person of colour
(formal) any non-European non-white person

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