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Meanings of black person in English

Portuguese
negro
Catalan
negre
Spanish
negro

A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).

        negro
        Usage of black person in English
        1
        It seemed unthinkable then that a black person would be elected president.
        The Guardian
        2
        He's a black person again. Mmusi Maimane is one of us now.
        The South African
        3
        By this time I was scared to call myself a black person.
        The Guardian
        4
        But the American black man is a unique kind of black person.
        Black is the new white
        5
        And all of those things happened simply because I was a black person.
        The last hero: a life of henry aaron
        6
        I had never seen a black person before visiting the UK.
        The Guardian
        7
        If you are a black person and you join that party…really?
        The South African
        8
        I suddenly appreciated what a black person must feel like in North Dakota.
        The Lost Continent
        9
        So what's it like to be a young black person here?
        BBC
        10
        He hopes to get every black person in the U.S. to drink it.
        The new yorker
        11
        The page's bio reads: If you're white, give a black person a plant.
        The South African
        12
        The white gangster gets excited to see a real live black person here.
        The Menstruating Mall
        13
        Hell, any black person pretty much the world over would have known it.
        Sister Mine
        14
        Steve McQueen did not become the first ever black person to win best director.
        The Irish Times
        15
        Basically, if a black person were to use this, would they eventually turn Caucasian?
        The Guardian
        16
        Thanks to cellphones, every black person has a body-cam now.
        The Guardian
        This collocation consists of:
        Translations for black person
        Portuguese
        negronegra
        Catalan
        negre
        Spanish
        negro
        Black person through the time
        Black person across language varieties
        South Africa
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common
        United Kingdom
        Rare