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Meanings of negro in English
A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
Synonyms
Examples for "blackamoor"
Examples for "blackamoor"
1
Waiting upon her at either hand were the blackamoor and the negress.
2
No, the beastly blackamoor had done the business on his own account.
3
What had kept him so long, and why had he turned blackamoor?
4
Many blackamoor figures portray exoticized images of servants and slaves of African descent.
5
I knew it was no blackamoor that was stealing into the great house.
1
His skin was intensely black, but the features were not at all negroid.
2
These same negroid savages are as bold as they are ferocious.
3
He was a dark young man with something negroid about his gleaming face.
4
This man was of a moderate size, and with a black negroid face.
5
She was absolutely in the power of the negroid brute.
1
It seemed unthinkable then that a black person would be elected president.
2
He's a black person again. Mmusi Maimane is one of us now.
3
By this time I was scared to call myself a black person.
4
But the American black man is a unique kind of black person.
5
And all of those things happened simply because I was a black person.
Usage of negro in English
1
Wants to write an opera, not negro, but can't find good libretto.
2
There is need for negro men to stay and establish the camp.
3
Some were said to be offended by the presence of negro wenches.
4
Writer compares the crude negro dialects employed in this book with No.
5
In the first group the negro vote is under 5 per cent.
6
In the first place, negro slavery existed in all the thirteen colonies.
7
But she spied an older negro porter, and she quietly accosted him.
8
The man leaned forward and peered in the darkness at the negro.
9
The idea of Mr. WALLACK permitting this negro minstrelsy in his theatre.
10
Another moment and Nigel was following in the track of the negro.
11
A light of pleasure shone in the eyes of the old negro.
12
An old negro busied about the deck; drew near and addressed her:
13
War for the Union was abandoned; war for the negro openly begun.
14
The conch was a yard or so in front of the negro.
15
The negro ought to be held in the position of a ward.
16
In the sitting-room the old negro turned with quiet dignity to Halsey.
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Negro through the time
Negro across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common