Black
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- noun
- /blæk/
:
persona negra
- For what she's doing for Black people and LA.
- discrimination against Black people
- Black women
- Black Americans
Jews, Catholics and free blacks dubbed the black poor.
- Jews, Catholics and free blacks dubbed the black poor.
Examples
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During the civil rights movement, many black activists fought for equality and justice.
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Have you seen black people or heard black voices in other poems?
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Many Chinese came to know about black people for the first time.
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Never had an audience seen a black person as an expert.
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The first prompt is the black church shaped black culture.
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While this is largely an economic matter, proximity to blacks compounds this assessment.
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In this article, the terms "African American" and "black" are used interchangeably.
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Women had to wait until the twentieth century, and blacks, in effect, until the 1960s.
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Crops that were owned and tilled by blacks were destroyed.
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Black publications, especially those of so-called radical blacks, invariably used the capitalized form of the term.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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1.2
A person with dark skin whose family comes from Africa
Idioms
A sign that dark clouds are coming and rain may fall, or a joke that things only seem bad
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.1
An area of space with gravity so strong that not even light can escape it
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4.9
A group of Black American activists in the 1960s who fought police abuse and fought for equal rights
- Specialized
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4.9
A device on an airplane that records flight information and pilot voices
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3.5
A very skilled person in martial arts like karate or judo who wears a dark band at the waist
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5.5
A thing, like a failing project, that uses a lot of time or money and gives nothing back
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6.0
A member of the Black Panther Party who fought for equal rights for African Americans in the 1960s
- Formal
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3.7
A formal evening dress code for men that requires a black jacket and bow tie
- US
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5.6
A venomous spider from the Americas whose female is black with a red hourglass on the underside of its body
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3.3
A sea between southeastern Europe and western Asia that borders countries like Turkey and Ukraine
- Specialized
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3.9
A system whose inner parts are hidden so you only see what goes in and what comes out
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4.1
A fictional king and superhero from Marvel who uses advanced technology to protect his people
- Specialized
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6.7
A lung disease from breathing coal dust for a long time that often affects miners
- US
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5.8
A person who follows the Nation of Islam, a religious group among African Americans in the United States
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6.4
A severe disease in the Middle Ages that spread across Europe and killed millions
- Literature
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6.3
A play or film that makes serious subjects, especially taboo ones, seem funny
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4.9
A range of mountains in South Dakota and Wyoming, home to Mount Rushmore and sacred to the Sioux
- NSFW
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9.9
A Palestinian armed group that carried out attacks in other countries in the early 1970s
- Specialized
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8.5
An object that absorbs all light and other kinds of radiation that hit it
- Specialized
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3.8
A person with advanced Six Sigma training who leads projects to improve how a company works
- Specialized
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A serious lung illness caused by breathing coal dust over many years, often in miners
- Jargon
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8.4
A secret action that hides who did it, often for political or military reasons
Surface Forms
Etymology
Black comes from the old English word blæc, which meant 'dark' or 'burned' and was first used for the colour. Because it was a colour word, people later used Black to describe skin tone, and today Black (often capitalized) is an identity term for many people of African ancestry.