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HYPHEN
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
DEVIL DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS

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Negro

POS

Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

Neg=ro

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Negro has 1 sense

negro(n = noun.person) black, black person, blackamoor, negroid - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa);

is a kind of individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, person of color, person of colour

has particulars: negress, black man, black woman, colored, colored person, darkey, darkie, darky, coon, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, spade, tom, uncle tom, picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny

is a member of black race, negro race, negroid race

Adjective Negro has 1 sense

negro(s = adj.all) - relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair;

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Negro, n. [Sp. or Pg. negro, fr. negro black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.].

A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found. [1913 Webster]
A person of dark skin color descended at least in part from African negroes; in the United States, an African-American. [PJC]

Negro, a.

Of or pertaining to negroes; black. [1913 Webster]

Negro bug (Zoöl.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produces a very disagreeable flavor. -- negro corn, the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. See Durra. McElrath. -- Negro fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosæ) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also carrot fly. -- Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath. -- Negro monkey (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Negro, n. & adj.
--n. (pl. -oes) a member of a dark-skinned race orig. native to Africa.

Idiom

Negro spiritual a religious song derived from the musical traditions of Black people in the southern US.

Usage

Now often considered offens.; the term Black is usually preferred.
--adj.
1 of or concerning Negroes.
2 (as negro) Zool. black or dark (negro ant).

Etymology

Sp. & Port., f. L niger nigri black

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DEVIL DICTIONARY

Negro

n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.

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THESAURUS

Negro

American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian, Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito, Oriental, Red Indian, WASP, black, black man, blackfellow, boy, brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky, jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy, red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man, whitey, yellow man

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ROGET THESAURUS

Negro

Servant

N servant, subject, liegeman, servant, retainer, follower, henchman, servitor, domestic, menial, help, lady help, employe, attache, official, retinue, suite, cortege, staff, court, attendant, squire, usher, page, donzel, footboy, train bearer, cup bearer, waiter, lapster, butler, livery servant, lackey, footman, flunky, flunkey, valet, valet de chambre, equerry, groom, jockey, hostler, ostler, tiger, orderly, messenger, cad, gillie, herdsman, swineherd, barkeeper, bartender, bell boy, boots, boy, counterjumper, khansamah, khansaman, khitmutgar, yardman, bailiff, castellan, seneschal, chamberlain, major-domo, groom of the chambers, secretary, under secretary, assistant secretary, clerk, subsidiary, agent, subaltern, underling, understrapper, man, maid, maidservant, handmaid, confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette, amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah, nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid, femme de chambre, femme fille, camarista, chef de cuisine, cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella, potwalloper, maid of all work, servant of all work, laundress, bedmaker, journeyman, charwoman, bearer, chokra, gyp (Cambridge), hamal, scout (Oxford), serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot, bondsman, bondswoman, bondslave, ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe, villian, villein, beadsman, bedesman, sizar, pensioner, pensionary, client, dependant, dependent, hanger on, satellite, parasite, led captain, protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature, badge of slavery, bonds, in the train of, in one's pay, in one's employ, at one's call, in bonds.

Blackness

N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.

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