- negro\ /person/
- negro
English-Brazilian Portuguese dictionary. Alexis B. Lemos. 2014.
negro\ /person/
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Negro — Negro1 [nē′grō] n. pl. Negroes [Sp & Port negro, black, black person < L niger, black] 1. a member of any of the indigenous dark skinned peoples of Africa, living chiefly south of the Sahara 2. a person having some African ancestors; a black… … English World dictionary
Negro — Ne gro (n[=e] gr[ o]), n.; pl. {Negroes} (n[=e] gr[=o]z). [Sp. or Pg. negro, fr. negro black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.] A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Negro — UK [ˈniːɡrəʊ] / US [ˈnɪɡroʊ] or Negro UK / US noun [countable] Word forms negro : singular negro plural negroes offensive a black person. This word is now considered offensive but until the second half of the 20th century it was an accepted word … English dictionary
negro — UK [ˈniːɡrəʊ] / US [ˈnɪɡroʊ] or Negro UK / US noun [countable] Word forms negro : singular negro plural negroes offensive a black person. This word is now considered offensive but until the second half of the 20th century it was an accepted word … English dictionary
Person of color — (plural: people of color; persons of color) is a term used, primarily in the United States, to describe all people who are not white. The term is meant to be inclusive among non white groups, emphasizing common experiences of racism. People of… … Wikipedia
Negro — This article is about the historic term. For an overview of the subject, see Black people. For the pro wrestler, see Sin Cara Negro. The word Negro is used in the English speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance,… … Wikipedia
Negro league baseball — Part of the History of baseball in the United States series. Part of the Baseball series on History of baseball • Origins of baseball • Early years • First league • Knickerbocker Rules • Massachus … Wikipedia
Negro — A person of the black race dominating in equatorial Africa. In some jurisdictions a person of mixed blood descended from Negro ancestry from the third generation inclusive, although one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person.… … Ballentine's law dictionary
negro — obsolete a slave Rawson (1981) tells us that negro quarter was recorded in 1734 and, as ever, gives an erudite exposition of the usage: I ll be no man s negro. I will be no man s slave. (Grose, 1811 his headword is negroe) For… … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
Negro — I. /ˈnigroʊ / (say neegroh) noun (plural Negroes) 1. a member of one of the dark skinned peoples of Africa or a descendant of these peoples elsewhere. –adjective 2. of, denoting, or relating to a Negro or to Negroes. Also, negro. {Spanish and… …
Negro — Recorded in over fifty spellings including Le Noire, Le Noir, Lenoir, diminutives Noirel and Noiret, (France), Negri, Negro, Lo Nero (Italian), Nieddu (Sardinia), this is an ancient surname. Originally from the Roman (Latin) word niger, and the… … Surnames reference
