negro
黑人,黑种人,黑鬼,阴性
Definitions
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plural Ne·groes.
- : Anthropology. a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
- : Older Use: Often Offensive. a Black person.
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- : Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, generally marked by brown to black skin pigmentation, dark eyes, and tightly curled hair and including especially the Indigenous peoples of Africa south of the Sahara.
- : Older Use. of or relating to Black people, often African Americans: a Negro spiritual; the Negro leagues in baseball.
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Examples
According to local lore a neighboring village called Pajaro Negro—Black Bird—supposedly was named after the planes.
You know: I am to intone that these pundits think of Obama as an “uppity Negro.”
The village sits along a narrowing vein of the Rio Negro, a tributary of the mighty Amazon.
It begins, “Without the tradition of American Negro music, there would be no rock music.”
None of us were under the impression that Bieber was exactly a United Negro College Fund board member.
A mixed type of the present day Negro, she was slightly tall, and somewhat slender, with a figure straight and graceful.
While the boy stood valiantly holding the bridle, an old Negro came up and pulled his sleeve.
The old Negro watched the approaching flare of the head-light as he ran on, with a grim, defiant eye.
Upon the walk he heard steps, and when he had reached the street, looked up to meet Glavis and a strange Negro just turning in.
He anxiously inquires of the first person he meets—probably a negro—if the woods are on fire.