negro
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Is negro a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) No
- Wordle Yes
- Words With Friends No
What is the meaning of negro?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (dated, now offensive) Relating to a black ethnicity.Examples: "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."datednot-comparableoffensive
2. (dated, now offensive) Black or dark brown in color.datednot-comparableoffensive
noun (English)
1. (dated, now offensive) A person of black African ancestry.Examples: "The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]"; "What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner."; "There were two negros who were guilty of thieving; he went and had them both shot, and gave notice that he would put all to death who kept disturbing the property of the white people, and kept confusion in their land."datedoffensive
2. (archaic) A slave, especially one of African ancestry.Examples: "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."archaic
noun (English)
1. (dated, now usually offensive) Alternative letter-case form of negro.Examples: "The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women."; "1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained."alt-ofdatedoffensiveusually
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary
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