Definitions for Negro
ˈni groʊNe·gro

Princeton's WordNet(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroidadjective

   a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

2. negroadjective

   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

Wiktionary(4.00 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. negroadjective

   Relating to the black ethnicity.

   Etymology: From negro.

2. negroadjective

   Black or dark brown in color.

   Etymology: From negro.

3. Negronoun

   A person with black or dark brown skin.

   Etymology: From negro.

Wikipedia(4.00 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Negro

   In the English language, Negro (plural Negroes) is a term historically used to denote persons considered to be of Negroid heritage. The term can be construed as offensive, inoffensive, or completely neutral, largely depending on the region or country where it is used. It has various equivalents in other languages of Europe. From the latest United States census figures, approximately 36,000 Americans identify their ethnicity as "Negro".

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Negronoun

   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

   Etymology: [Sp. or Pg. negro, fr. negro black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.]

2. Negroadjective

   of or pertaining to negroes; black

   Etymology: [Sp. or Pg. negro, fr. negro black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.]

Freebase(3.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Negro

   The word “Negro” is used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance. The word negro denotes 'black' in the Spanish and Portuguese, derived from the ancient Latin word, niger, 'black', which itself ultimately is probably from a Proto-Indo-European root *nekw-, 'to be dark', akin to *nokw- 'night'. "Negro" superseded "colored" as the most polite terminology, at a time when "black" was more offensive. This usage was accepted as normal, even by people classified as Negroes, until the later Civil Rights movement in the late 1960s. One well-known example is the identification by Martin Luther King, Jr. of his own race as 'Negro' in his famous 1963 speech I Have a Dream. During the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, some black American leaders in the United States, notably Malcolm X, objected to the word, preferring Black, because they associated the word Negro with the long history of slavery, segregation, and discrimination that treated African Americans as second class citizens, or worse. Since the late 1960s, various other terms have been more widespread in popular usage. These include "black", "Black African", "Afro-American" and "African American".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(4.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Negro

   nē′grō, n. one of the black-skinned woolly-haired race in the Soudan and central parts of Africa, also their descendants in America.—adj. of or pertaining to the race of black men:—fem. Nē′gress.—ns. Nē′gro-corn, the name given in the West Indies to the plant durra or Indian millet; Nē′grohead, tobacco soaked in molasses and pressed into cakes, so called from its blackness.—adj. Nē′groid.—n. Nē′grōism, any peculiarity of speech noticeable among negroes, esp. in the southern United States. [Sp. negro—L. niger, black.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(2.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. NEGRO

   One who votes your way. NIGGER One who doesn't.

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Negroadjective

   A word used to describe an ignorant person of any color

   Submitted by sissy8455 on September 7, 2021  

Anagrams for Negro »

1. goner

2. genro

3. Norge

How to pronounce Negro?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Negro in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Negro in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Negro in a Sentence

1. Roger B. Taney:

   It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State.

2. malcolm X, Autobiography of malcolm x:

   My thinking had been opened up wide in Mecca. I wrote long letters to my friends, in which I tried to convey to them my new insights into the American black man's struggle and his problems as well as the depths of my search for truth and justice. “I've had enough of someone else's propaganda,” I had written to these friends. “I am for truth, no matter who tells it. I am for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I am a human being first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” The American white man's press called me the angriest Negro in America. I wouldn't deny that charge; I spoke exactly as I felt. I believe in anger. I believe it is a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. I am for violence if non-violence means that we continue postponing or even delaying a solution to the American black man's problem. White man hates to hear anybody, especially a black man, talk about the crime that the white man perpetrated on the black man. But let me remind you that when the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn't demonstrating non-violence.

3. Mary McLeod Bethune:

   The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

4. James A. Garfield:

   ..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

5. David Pilgrim:

   From the very beginning, putting on a blackface has been to act like either a foolish negro or a dangerous nigger.

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