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NEGRO
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Irregular inflected form: negroes
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person with African ancestry,
Example:
Negroid
Synonyms:
African-American; Black; Negro; Negroid
Classified under:
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having skin rich in melanin pigments
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
black (of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin)
Context examples:
At this the negro took heart of grace, and picking up his dagger again he came stealing with prowling step and murderous eye, while the two swayed backwards and forwards, staggering this way and that.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Behind him, only a few yards in his rear, bounded the huge ebony figure of Zambo, our devoted negro.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The first is a gigantic negro named Zambo, who is a black Hercules, as willing as any horse, and about as intelligent.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But first of all it was necessary to make our arrangements with the faithful negro, who appeared presently on the pinnacle with a number of tins of cocoa and biscuits, which he tossed over to us.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, we had a fair supply of cartridges and all our guns, so, for a time at least, we could look after ourselves, and we hoped soon to have a chance of returning and restoring our communications with our negro.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In spite of the danger from dinosaurs (which is not great save at night, for, as I may have said before, they are mostly nocturnal in their habits) I have twice in the last three weeks been over to our old camp in order to see our negro who still kept watch and ward below the cliff.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On the last evening he seems to have hid himself near the hut in which we were discussing our plans, and, being observed by our huge negro Zambo, who is as faithful as a dog and has the hatred which all his race bear to the half-breeds, he was dragged out and carried into our presence.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Only the Negro and I were near enough to hear what he said but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with truculent eyes.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
