See Also: Rio Negro(tourism)
Negro(medicine)
Negro(dictionary)
Negro(dictionary)
Rio Negro hotels(tourism)
Negro spiritual(dictionary)
Negro leagues(encyclopedia)
Negro River(encyclopedia)
Negro (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
negro-head(dictionary)

Negro (iou)



Negro noun & adjective. Also negro. Now considered racially offensive. M16.
[Spanish & Portuguese from Latin nigr-, niger black.]
A. noun. Pl. -oes.
An individual (esp. a male) belonging to or descended from any of various peoples indigenous to Africa and characterized by black or dark skin, black tightly curled hair, and a broad flattish nose and full lips; a black person. M16.
New Negro: see NEW adjective. White Negro: see WHITE adjective.
Black English. Now rare. E18.
b. attrib. or as adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of black people. L16.
Special collocations & comb.: Negro cloth Hist. coarse plain cloth intended to be worn by black slaves in America. Negro dog Hist. a dog used in hunting runaway black slaves in America. Negro English Black English. Negroland (now arch. rare) black Africa. Negro minstrel = blackface minstrel s.v. BLACK adjective. Negro-Portuguese adjective & noun (of) a pidginized form of Portuguese used as a trade language on the Atlantic coast of S. America. Negro Renaissance (the period of) an increase in artistic activity among American black people in the 1920s. Negro's head a tropical American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, the fruit of which is a source of vegetable ivory. Negro spiritual a religious song characteristic of the black people in the southern States of America. Negro State any of the Southern States of America in which slavery was legal. Negro tamarin a tamarin monkey Saguinus midas, of the lower Amazon. Negro yam W. Indies a coarse-textured yam, the tuber of Dioscorea sativa.
? Once a relatively neutral term, but now black is preferred when referring to people.
Negrodom noun (now rare) the region or community of black people. M19.
Negroish adjective (now rare) suggestive or characteristic of black people M18.
Negroism noun (a) advancement of the interests or rights of black people; (b) a pronunciation, expression, or idiom, characteristic of or restricted to Black English: M19.
Negroness noun the state or quality of being black, black qualities and characteristics collectively M20.