black
- adjective
- /blæk/
- As a Black quarterback, I had to be great just to be good.
- black people
- black men
- black women
If you have one drop of black blood, you're black.
- If you have one drop of black blood, you're black.
- Are white people poorer than black people in numbers?
- It's kind of like being black in my opinion.
- Men, women, old, young, black, white, doesn't matter.
- It seems more freeing for us as black women compared to black men.
- You know, there were young black kids that I went to school with.
- Mental health issues are not things that black people deal with, right?
- Separation of white and black or poor and rich.
- What do you call a happy black American answer?
Examples
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An example of that is how different the black people were treated from the white people.
Academic text (2015) -
Most people think, you know, I'm black, so Democrat.
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A lot of them are black who are women.
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I want to be a black female cop in America.
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Regardless of race, black people are not allowed at this university.
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We're saying, can't black life and Black lives matter, too.
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We recruited a small sample of 15 Black male youth offenders aged 15 to 17 years.
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She was one of the first black pathologist.
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For example, results for Black females and Black males were significantly different in some analyses.
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Many successful artists identify as black and openly discuss their cultural heritage.
Antonyms
Idioms
A sign that dark clouds are coming and rain may fall, or a joke that things only seem bad
Compounds
- Specialized
An area of space with gravity so strong that not even light can escape it
A group of Black American activists in the 1960s who fought police abuse and fought for equal rights
- Specialized
A device on an airplane that records flight information and pilot voices
A very skilled person in martial arts like karate or judo who wears a dark band at the waist
A thing, like a failing project, that uses a lot of time or money and gives nothing back
A member of the Black Panther Party who fought for equal rights for African Americans in the 1960s
- Formal
A formal evening dress code for men that requires a black jacket and bow tie
- US
A venomous spider from the Americas whose female is black with a red hourglass on the underside of its body
A sea between southeastern Europe and western Asia that borders countries like Turkey and Ukraine
- Specialized
A system whose inner parts are hidden so you only see what goes in and what comes out
A fictional king and superhero from Marvel who uses advanced technology to protect his people
- Specialized
A lung disease from breathing coal dust for a long time that often affects miners
- US
A person who follows the Nation of Islam, a religious group among African Americans in the United States
A severe disease in the Middle Ages that spread across Europe and killed millions
- Literature
A play or film that makes serious subjects, especially taboo ones, seem funny
A range of mountains in South Dakota and Wyoming, home to Mount Rushmore and sacred to the Sioux
- NSFW
A Palestinian armed group that carried out attacks in other countries in the early 1970s
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An object that absorbs all light and other kinds of radiation that hit it
- Specialized
A person with advanced Six Sigma training who leads projects to improve how a company works
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A serious lung illness caused by breathing coal dust over many years, often in miners
- Jargon
A secret action that hides who did it, often for political or military reasons
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word black simply grew from the basic color meaning 'dark', so it was later used to describe people with dark skin; that link between color and description is why we still use black this way.