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/nˈigroʊ/ Listen

noun

Negro n. (pl. negroes)

A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

A person of dark skin color descended at least in part from African negroes; in the United States, an African-American. (U.S. usage, sometimes considered offensive.)

adjective

Negro adj. Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

Negro bug (Zool.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produces a very disagreeable flavor.

negro corn, the Indian millet or durra; so called in the West Indies. See Durra.

Negro fly (Zool.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosae) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; called also carrot fly.

Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. (Cant)

Negro monkey (Zool.), the moor monkey.

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Etymology of 'Negro'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Negro" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the experiment emboldened her to throw off the most sacred observances of her past. She took up Madame Adelschein, she entertained the James J. Rollivers, she resuscitated Creole dishes, she patronized negro melodists, she abandoned her weekly teas for impromptu afternoon dances, and the prim drawing-room in which dowagers had droned echoed with ...

— The Custom of the Country • Edith Wharton

... honey soap will take it out," said Susy; but with all their washing and rinsing they could not make black white any more than the poor negro ...

— Little Prudy • Sophie May

... about the car-wheels and track to pick up the crumbs which passengers throw away from their lunch-baskets. Just over the wild pineapple hedge close at hand, half a dozen naked negro children hover round the door of a low cabin; the mother, fat and shining in her one garment, gazes with arms akimbo at the scene of which she forms a typical part. The engineer imbibes a penny drink of thin Cataline wine and hastens ...

— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

... person's gaze rested with something more than casual interest on his—Matt's—left forearm; whereupon the latter realized that his vis-a-vis yearned to see more of a little decoration which, in the pride of his first voyage, Matt had seen fit to have tattooed on the aforesaid forearm by the negro cook. So, since he was the best-natured young man imaginable, Matt decided presently to ...

— Cappy Ricks • Peter B. Kyne

... Era un negro solemne monumento Que en medio de la estancia se elevaba, [1350] Y, a un tiempo a Montemar raro portento! Una tumba y un lecho semejaba: Ya imagin su loco pensamiento Que abierta aquella tumba le aguardaba; Ya imagin tambin que el ...

— El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections • George Tyler Northup

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