NEGRO (negroes)

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Irregular inflected form: negroes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Negro mean? 

• NEGRO (noun)
  The noun NEGRO has 1 sense:

1. a person with African ancestry,

  Familiarity information: NEGRO used as a noun is very rare.

• NEGRO (adjective)
  The adjective NEGRO has 1 sense:

1. having skin rich in melanin pigments

  Familiarity information: NEGRO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with African ancestry,

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

African-American; Black; Negro; Negroid

Context example:

Negroid

Hypernyms ("Negro" is a kind of...):

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

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

soul brother (a fellow Black man)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)

Domain usage:

archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

• NEGRO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having skin rich in melanin pigments

Synonyms:

colored; coloured; negro

Similar:

black (of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin)

 Context examples 

Terms such as "Haitian" or "Negro" can be used in addition to "Black or African American".

(African American, NCI Thesaurus)

"Very good, sarr! I promise they wait till to-morrow," said the negro.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At first, as I examined it, I thought that it was a mummified negro baby, and then it seemed a very twisted and ancient monkey.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The negro had burrowed down into his hiding-place upon the barrow, where he might have lain snug enough, had it not been for the red gear upon his head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its power was used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country of those who were opposed to its views.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The findings are based on measurements of methane emissions taken from 2,300 trees spread across a number of locations surrounding the rivers Negro, Solimões, Amazonas and Tapajós — where the water level can flood trees by up to 10 metres.

(Amazon trees are major source of methane emission, SciDev.Net)

An instant later he re-appeared in company of a gigantic negro, the two of them bearing between them a large square packing-case.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one was an oldish man with a thin beard, a crooked nose, and a broad red smudge from a birth-mark over his temple; the other was a negro, a thing rarely met in England at that day, and rarer still in the quiet southland parts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Three white men, then, two half-breeds, one negro, and three Indians made up the personnel of the little expedition which lay waiting for its instructions at Manaos before starting upon its singular quest.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)