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Negro
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- 1 Relating to a black ethnicity. dated, not-comparable, offensive
"Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate."
- 2 Black or dark brown in color. dated, not-comparable, offensive
- 1 having skin rich in melanin pigments; wordnet
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A person of black African ancestry. dated, offensive
"The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of negro. alt-of, dated, offensive, usually
"The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women."
- 3 a person with African ancestry, ‘Negro’ and ‘Negroid’ are archaic and pejorative today wordnet
- 4 A slave, especially one of African ancestry. archaic
"We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it."
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir.
Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir.
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