BLACK PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview 

• BLACK PERSON (noun)
  The noun BLACK PERSON has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BLACK PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Black person; blackamoor; Negro; Negroid; Black

Hypernyms ("Black person" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

person of color; person of colour ((formal) any non-European non-White person)

Domain region:

Africa (the second largest continent; located south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Black person"):

Negress (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 (offensive term for Black people)

coon; jigaboo; nigga; nigger; nigra; spade ((ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person)

Tom; Uncle Tom (contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((offensive) a Black child)

Holonyms ("Black person" is a member of...):

Black race; Negro race; Negroid race (a dark-skinned race)