Definitions for Negro

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Negro Ne·gro

Spelling: [nee-groh]

IPA: /ˈni groʊ/

Negro is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in Negro (egnor).

Definitions for Negro

noun

1. Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Negro race, especially those who originate in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. Older Use: Often Offensive. a black person.
3. a river in NW South America, flowing SE from E Colombia through N Brazil into the Amazon. 1400 miles (2255 km) long.
4. a river in S Argentina, flowing E from the Andes to the Atlantic. 700 miles (1125 km) long.
5. a river in SE South America, flowing S from Brazil and W through Uruguay, to the Uruguay River. About 500 miles (800 km) long.

adjective

1. Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) 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.
2. Older Use. of or relating to black people, often African Americans:

Origin of Negro

1545-55; Spanish and Portuguese negro ‘black’ Latin nigrum, masculine accusative of niger ‘black’

Examples for Negro

He wouldn't have a Negro on the place that he had to watch, nor one that wasn't happy.

Here the consequences of the historic injustices done to Negro Americans are silent and hidden from view.

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” as he recalled driving by a housing project in Las Vegas.

You know: I am to intone that these pundits think of Obama as an “uppity Negro.”

"Eighty-five," said the clerk; and the drummer and the Negro disappeared.

This brought the Negro a few steps in front of his companion.

One could see the Negro now; he sat on a barrel at the end of the room.

"The change that has come over the South—to the Negro," I answered.

Triplett would become the first Negro that was drafted by a team, the Detroit Lions, to make an NFL roster in 1949.

The object should be to strengthen the Negro family so as to enable it to raise and support its members as do other families.