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Definition: Negro |
NegroAdjective1. Relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair. Noun1. A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "negro" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Negro \Ne"gro\, noun; plural Negroes. [Spanish or Portuguese negro, from negro black, Latin niger; perhaps akin to English night.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | NEGRO, n. The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | One who votes your way. NIGGER One who doesn't. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing a negro standing on your green lawn, is a sign that while your immediate future seems filled with prosperity and sweetest joys, there will creep into it unavoidable discord, which will veil all brightness in gloom for a season. To dream of seeing a burly negro, denotes formidable rivals in affection and business. To see a mulatto, constant worries and friction with hirelings is foretold. To dream of a difficulty with a negro, signifies your inability to overcome disagreeable surroundings. It also denotes disappointments and ill fortune. For a young woman to dream of a negro, she will be constrained to work for her own support, or be disappointed in her lover. To dream of negro children, denotes many little anxieties and crosses. For a young woman to dream of being held by a negro, portends for her many disagreeable duties. She is likely to meet with and give displeasure. She will quarrel with her dearest friends. Sickness sometimes follows dreams of old negroes. To see one nude, abject despair, and failure to cope with treachery may follow. Enemies will work you signal harm, and bad news from the absent may be expected. To meet with a trusty negro in a place where he ought not to be, foretells you will be deceived by some person in whom you placed great confidence. You are likely to be much exasperated over the conduct of a servant or some person under your orders. Delays and vexations may follow. To think that you are preaching to negroes is a warning to protect your interest, as false friends are dealing surreptitiously with you. To hear a negro preaching denotes you will be greatly worried over material matters and servants are giving cause for uneasiness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Negro Fuller says a negro is "God's image cut in ebony." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang | Groe. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Negro means black in the Spanish language.The term negro was formerly used to refer to Sub-Saharan Africans and people with that heritage, such as African Americans. In the mid 20th century it was considered the correct and proper term for African-Americans, but fell out of favor in the late 20th century.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Negro."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Negro River, the great northern tributary of the Amazon River, has its sources along the watershed between the Orinoco and the Amazon basins, and also connects with the Orinoco by way of the Casiquiare canal. Its main affluent is the Uaupes, which disputes with the headwaters of the Guaviari branch of the Orinoco the drainage of the eastern slope of the "Oriental", Andes of Colombia.The Negro is navigable for 450 miles above its mouth for 4 feet of water in the dry season, but it has many sandbanks and minor difficulties. In the wet season, it overflows the country far and wide, sometimes to a breadth of 20 miles, for long distances, and for 400 miles up, as far as Santa Isabella, is a succession of lagoons, full of long islands and intricate channels, and the slope of the country is so gentle that the river has almost no current. But just before reaching the Uaupes, there is a long series of reefs, over which it violently flows in cataracts, rapids and whirlpools. The Uaupes is full of similar obstacles, some fifty rapids barring its navigation, although a long stretch of its upper course is said to be free from them, and to flow gently through a forested country. Despite the impediments, canoes ascend this stream to the Andes.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Negro River."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NEGRO | English | National Economic Growth and Reconstruction Organization | Economics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: NegroSynonyms: black person (n), blackamoor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pungency | Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy. |
Servant | Serf, vassal, slave, negro, helot; bondsman, bondswoman; bondslave; ame damnee, odalisque, ryot, adscriptus gleboe; villian, villein; beadsman, bedesman; sizar; pensioner, pensionary; client; dependant, dependent; hanger on, satellite; parasite; (servility); led captain; protege, ward, hireling, mercenary, puppet, tool, creature. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Negro |
| English words defined with "negro": Assiento ♦ blackface ♦ Chewa, Coffle, Cuffy ♦ driblet, drop ♦ Foolahs ♦ Griffe ♦ Krooman ♦ Leucoethiopic, Liberia ♦ minstrel show ♦ Negroes, negroid ♦ Of color ♦ Quashee ♦ Republic of Liberia ♦ Sambo ♦ Woolly-head ♦ Zambo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "negro": Assiento Treaties ♦ Banjo, BROWN ♦ CALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLA, CASSIA RETICULATA, CHIMNEY CHOPS ♦ groe ♦ Jus de Reglisse ♦ KICKERAPOO, Ku-Klux-Klan ♦ MALACHRA ♦ Negro Offspring, NO CATCHY NO HAVY ♦ Ouija ♦ PICKANINY ♦ SNOWBALL, Sugar ♦ TOM. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "negro": Voodooism. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Negro" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Esperanto (Negro), Italian (black, blackamoor, blackly, negro, nigger), Papiamen (Negro), Portuguese (black, blackamoor, blacky, darkey, darky, ebon, jim-crow, mirk, murk, negro, nigger, sable, sambo, sooty mold, sooty mould), Spanish (black, black man, blacking, colored, coloured, coon, dark, ebony, gloom, gloomy, jim crow, Negro, nigger, nig-nog, pitchy, Raven, sable, stout). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | An armed Negro cowboy costume in a room full of white, Southern, former slave-owners (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas) Just think what happened to the African Negro and the American Indian when they came into contact with the Europeans who had more advanced technology (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) You're just the next Negro to them (G.I. Jane; writing credit: David Twohy) Excuse me, I ain't walkin on egg shells just cause you brought the Brady Bunch to the negro club (Save the Last Dance; writing credit: Duane Adler) I thought I heard Negro. (Bringing Down the House; writing credit: Jason Filardi) | |
Lyrics | Cause yo, I'm just a fly negro (Keep Their Headz Ringin; performing artist: Dr. Dre) | |
Movie/TV Titles | O Exorcismo Negro (1974) Negro es un bello color (1974) El Poder negro (1974) Anjo Negro (1972) Cristo negro (1971) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Brazil's Araca River is a tributary of the Negro River, which feeds into the Amazon. Credit: NASA. |  | Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Great Egret is a common species seen in the lagoons of Mar Negro. They feed on a variety of invertebrates that inhabit these areas. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No.5, Paris, France. : Showing a Negro patient. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume II, page 187. It depicts scenes on board the monitor, probably at about the time she was completed in December 1862. The views include a view in the officers' ward room, with negro messmen at work, and several vignettes of ordnance equipment. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Architectural drawing for a school ("Rosenwald School for Negro Children") for the Rosenwald Foundation, La Jolla, San Diego, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a lawy by Congress. Support Congress & you support the Negro Sustain the President & you protect the white man. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Dreadful Riot on Negro Hill!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | If you strike that negro one blow --. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | He found his rooms tenanted by a negro boy bound and gagged, bruised and sore. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gold teeth for Negro prizefighter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Bridge Clouds" by Julian Sutter Commentary: "This is a train bridge in Argentina... called puente Negro.. in the college im doing an exchange program at... we walk there every weekend... not much to do." | "Serafico" by Djalma Patricio Commentary: "Rio Negro, Parana." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Adam Clayton Powell | Beware of Greeks bearing gifts, colored men looking for loans and whites who "understand the Negro." |
Alexandre Dumas | My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems begins where yours left off. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | In none of these cases was it necessary to re-examine the doctrine to grant relief to the Negro plaintiff. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1895) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Homer Hogu, negro. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Some say that he was a Guinea Negro. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Furthermore, Neuquen, Rio Negro, La Pampa, Santa Fe and La Rioja are all following suit and introducing beneficial renewable energy legislation. (references) | |
More than USD 2 billion will be invested in the development of the refining complexes of the ongoing "strategic alliances" (Hamaca, Sincor, Cerro Negro and Petrozuata). (references) | ||
Economic History | Liberia | The Liberian constitution restricts citizenship only to people of Negro descent. (references) |
Malawi | At another site, dated 1500 BC, the remains possess features resembling Negro and Bushman people. (references) | |
Suriname | The Venetiaan government was able to effect a settlement to Suriname's domestic insurgency through the August 1992 Peace Accord with Bush Negro and Amerindian rebels. (references) | |
Minorities | Liberia | Although the Constitution bans ethnic discrimination, it also provides that only "persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent" may be citizens or own land. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | Therefore the Executive, in recognizing the Negro race by appointments, must exercise a careful discretion not thereby to do it more harm than good. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Negro" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Negro" is used about 160 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.75% | 150 | 25,701 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.25% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 160 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "negro" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Negro | Last name | 170 | 42,700 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "negro": El Negro ♦ negro bug ♦ negro corn ♦ negro fly ♦ negro head ♦ negro monkey ♦ negro peach ♦ negro pepper ♦ negro question ♦ negro race ♦ negro spiritual ♦ negro vine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "negro": negro-dealer, Negro-quiagara. | |
Ending with "negro": anti-negro, half-negro. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
negro rent | 310 | blanco fotos negro y | 24 |
negro.com rent | 309 | negro turbo | 23 |
negro | 301 | negro league baseball jersey | 23 |
negro league | 196 | league museum negro | 22 |
america ayo damali in negro race rent satire satirical site web | 141 | negro league apparel | 21 |
negro league baseball | 136 | anthem national negro | 20 |
negro spiritual | 121 | miseducation negro | 19 |
college fund negro united | 120 | negro baseball | 18 |
negro league jersey | 75 | en blanco y negro | 18 |
humor negro | 62 | negro sex | 18 |
council national negro woman | 51 | mercado negro | 17 |
beso negro | 47 | negro problem | 17 |
rio negro | 46 | gato negro | 17 |
agujero negro | 41 | blanco y negro | 16 |
the negro speaks of river | 38 | el gato negro | 14 |
negro league baseball museum | 31 | education journal negro | 13 |
diario negro rio | 31 | com negro rent | 13 |
sexo negro | 25 | del negro | 13 |
buraco negro | 24 | hoyo negro | 13 |
negro league hat | 24 | joke negro | 13 |
jersey league negro throwback | 13 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "negro"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | swarte. (various references) | |
Albanian | zezak (black, ebony). (various references) | |
Arabic | زنجي (black, coon, rank), القزم الزنجاني الإ فريقي, الزنجي (jim crow), أسود (black, blacken, blackly, ebony, lions, raven, sable). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | негърски, негър (black, blackamoor, jim crow, sambo). (various references) | |
Chinese | 黑人 (Negroes). (various references) | |
Czech | èernoch (jim crow, sambo). (various references) | |
Danish | tandhjulsrigiditet (cogwheel phenomenon, Negro phenomenon), tandhjulsfaenomen (cogwheel phenomenon, Negro phenomenon), freijo (Brazilian walnut, cordia wood, freijo, jenny wood, laurel negro, salmwood). (various references) | |
Dutch | zwart (black, pessimistic), neger-. (various references) | |
Esperanto | negro, negra. (various references) | |
Faeroese | blámaður. (various references) | |
Farsi | کاکا, سیاه پوست (Ethiopian), سیاه (Black, Grimy, Jetty, Sooty), زنگی . (various references) | |
Finnish | neekeri. (various references) | |
French | nègre. (various references) | |
Frisian | neger. (various references) | |
German | Neger (gobo, idiot card, negroes). (various references) | |
Greek | νέγροσ (black), μαύροσ (black, colored, coloured, pitchy, sable), αράπησ (arab, black), αιθίοψ (colored). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כושי (black, ethiopian, moor). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerecsen (black, blackamoor, Blacky, dark-skinned, moor, moorish, saracen), sötét bőrű (dark-skinned), néger (african, black, blacky, buffalo, coon, dark-skinned, negroe, nig, nig-nog, spook). (various references) | |
Icelandic | negri, svertingi. (various references) | |
Indonesian | orang negro. (various references) | |
Italian | negro (black, blackamoor, blackly). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 黒人霊歌 (Negro spiritual), ニクロム線 (Negro spiritual, nichrome wire, nicotine). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ニグロスピリチュアル (Negro spiritual), こくじんれいか (Negro spiritual). (various references) | |
Korean | 흑인 (Negroes). (various references) | |
Manx | dooinney gorrym, dooinney doo (black man). (various references) | |
Papiamen | negro, neger. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | egronay.(various references) | |
Polish | Murzyn. (various references) | |
Portuguese | negro (black, blackamoor, blacky, ebon, jim-crow, mirk, murk, sable, sambo). (various references) | |
Romanian | negru (black, blackened, Brown, coon, dark, dirtiness, dirty, foul, ghost writer, grimy, hidden, jim crow, penny-a-liner, sable, sun-burnt, swarthy, tawny, wicked), de rasã neagrã. (various references) | |
Russian | негритянский, негр негритянский, негр (afro-american, blackamoor, blacky, coon, negro man, sambo). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | crnac (black, blackamoor, jig), crnački (black, colored, coloured), crn (black, dark, inky, jet, raven). (various references) | |
Spanish | negro (black, black man, blacking, colored, coloured, coon, dark, ebony, gloom, gloomy, jim crow, nig-nog, pitchy, Raven, sable, stout). (various references) | |
Sranan | nengre, blakaman. (various references) | |
Swedish | neger (coon). (various references) | |
Turkish | zenci (african, black, blackamoor, Blackie, Blacky, buck, colored, coloured, coon, crow, jim crow, moke, negroid, sambo, spade, uncle), arap (Arab, arabian, arabic). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чорний (black, dark), темношкірий, негритянський (ethiopian, negritic, non-european, race, soul), негритянка (negress), негр (buck, ethiopian, non-european). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người da đen (quashee), đen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aethiopes, aethiopi, aethiopis, aethiops, aethiopum, niger. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "negro": negroid, negroids, negroni, negronis, negrophobe, negrophobes, negrophobia, negrophobias. (additional references) | |
Words containing "negro": winegrower, winegrowers. (additional references) | |
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"Negro" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nagorno, Nawroz, Negere, nego, negor, Negret, negroni, Negru, Nereo, nergo, Nerio, Nevros, Neyra, Nghon, Ngiro, Nguoi, nigri, nigro, Nipro, Nugroho, Nuoro, Nyiro. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: genro, goner. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: ergo, goer, gone, gore, ogre. | |
-2 letters: ego, eng, eon, erg, ern, gen, gor, nog, nor, one, ore, reg, roe. | |
-3 letters: en, er, go, ne, no, oe, on, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: conger, eringo, eryngo, genros, goners, gorhen, govern, groyne, ignore, longer, monger, morgen, onager, orange, orgone, region, tonger. | |
+2 letters: acrogen, begroan, burgeon, congers, coreign, cryogen, engorge, engross, erelong, eringos, eroding, eryngos, foreign, forgone, frogmen, genitor, gorhens, governs, groaned, groaner, groined, groynes, guerdon, ignored, ignorer, ignores, kerogen, leghorn, longers, lounger, marengo, mongers, mongrel, morgens, negator, negroid, negroni, onagers, oranges, orangey, oregano, orgones, orogeny, overing, perigon, pirogen, presong, progeny, pronged, pyrogen, redoing, regions, regrown, rontgen, roughen, signore, sponger, surgeon, tongers, undergo, wagoner, wronged, wronger, younger, zeroing. | |
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