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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Meaning of "Negro" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NEGRO

From Spanish or Portuguese: black, from Latin niger black.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NEGRO

Negro  [ˈniːɡrəʊ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NEGRO

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Negro can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES NEGRO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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 "Negro" superseded "colored" as the most polite terminology, at a time when "black" was more offensive.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 "Negro" 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.

Definition of Negro in the English dictionary

The definition of Negro in the dictionary is a member of any of the dark-skinned indigenous peoples of Africa and their descendants elsewhere. Other definition of Negro is relating to or characteristic of Negroes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NEGRO


aggro
ˈæɡrəʊ
allegro
əˈleɪɡrəʊ
Baby-gro
ˈbeɪbɪˌɡrəʊ
grow
ɡrəʊ
intergrow
ˌɪntərˈɡrəʊ
misgrow
ˌmɪsˈɡrəʊ
Montenegro
ˌmɒntɪˈniːɡrəʊ
outgrow
ˌaʊtˈɡrəʊ
overgrow
ˌəʊvəˈɡrəʊ
regrow
riːˈɡrəʊ
upgrow
ʌpˈɡrəʊ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NEGRO

Negri Sembilan
Negrillo
Negritic
Negrito
negritude
Negro spiritual
negrohead
Negroid
negroidal
Negroism
negroni
Negrophil
Negrophile
Negrophilism
Negrophilist
Negrophobe
Negrophobia
Negrophobic
Negropont
Negros

WORDS THAT END LIKE NEGRO

bro
Castro
claro
cuatro
dinero
euro
hero
hydro
metro
micro
outro
pedro
primero
pro
retro
Rio de Janeiro
ro
Serbia and Montenegro
to and fro
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Synonyms and antonyms of Negro in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Negro» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NEGRO

Find out the translation of Negro to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Negro from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Negro» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

黑人
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Negro
570 millions of speakers

English

Negro
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीग्रो
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

زنجي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

негр
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Negro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নিগ্রো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Noir
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Negro
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Neger
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ネグロ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

흑인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Negro
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người da đen
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நீக்ரோ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निग्रो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zenci
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

negro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Negro
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

негр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Negro
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Negro
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Negro
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

neger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

neger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Negro

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NEGRO»

The term «Negro» is very widely used and occupies the 4.585 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NEGRO» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Negro» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Negro» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Negro

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10 QUOTES WITH «NEGRO»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Negro.
1
Ray Stannard Baker
And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk.
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Ray Stannard Baker
The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.
3
James Baldwin
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
4
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.
5
W. E. B. Du Bois
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
6
George Washington Carver
When our thoughts - which bring actions - are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
7
Pearl Cleage
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
8
Stanley Crouch
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
9
Ray Dandridge
In the Negro Leagues, we'd play three games a day on the weekends. Then we'd ride the bus and travel to play the next day someplace else. You'd hang your shirt out the bus window to dry.
10
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEGRO»

Discover the use of Negro in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Negro and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Black World/Negro Digest
Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing.
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Black World/Negro Digest
Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing.
3
The Negro Church: Report of a Social Study Made Under the ...
A new edition of Du Bois's pathbreaking sociological work on the black church.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, 1903
4
The Negro
This is the classic history of the African peoples in Africa and the New World, a repudiation of the absurd belief, widely held in the post-Civil War period, that Africans had no civilization but the one foisted upon them by their ...
W. E. B. Du Bois, 2007
5
Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
Offers a provocative look at the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, discussing the relationship between his administation's decisions and the power of the slave states, as well as the opposition of Timothy Pickering.
Garry Wills, 2005
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Black World/Negro Digest
Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing.
7
The Myth of the Negro Past
Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past.
Melville Jean Herskovits, 1990
8
The New Negro
Part I, The Negro renaissance: The New Negro; Negro Art and America; The Negro in American Literature; Negro Youth speaks; Fiction; Poetry; Drama; Music; The Negro digs up his Past; Part II, The New Negro in a New World: The Negro Pioneers; ...
Alain Locke, 1925
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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis ...
Published in 1967, as the early triumphs of the Civil Rights movement yielded to increasing frustration and violence, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual electrified a generation of activists and intellectuals.
Harold Cruse, 1967
10
Black World/Negro Digest
Founded in 1943, Negro Digest (later “Black World”) was the publication that launched Johnson Publishing.

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEGRO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Negro is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pa. lawmaker wants name change for 'Negro Mountain'
Negro Mountain sits near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. It was named in the 1700s, in honor of a settler who died fighting Native ... «WPXI Pittsburgh, Jul 15»
2
PA state lawmakers want new name for 'Negro Mountain'
"Mount Davis is in the Negro Mountain range, it wasn't 'Mount White Landowner Guy'," adds Seth Grove, her fellow State Representative. «KPLC-TV, Jul 15»
3
Goldcorp Cerro Negro Contribution Gives Local Hospital a New …
A welcome donation by Goldcorp Cerro Negro to the Hospital Distrital Oscar H. Natale in Perito Moreno, Argentina has sparked a baby boom of ... «3BL Media, Jul 15»
4
Nashville held Negro League All-Star series in 1934
A best-of-three Negro League “North vs. South” All-Star series was held at Sulphur Dell in the fall of 1934. The South lineup came from ... «The Tennessean, Jul 15»
5
Field Negro: When outrage gets selective.
In this Jan. 16, 2015 file photo, Donald Trump, host of the television series "The Celebrity Apprentice," mugs for photographers at the NBC 2015 ... «New Pittsburgh Courier, Jul 15»
6
John Clayton/ Hank Jones – Parlor Series Vol. II: The Negro
II: The Negro Spirituals Dialogue – ArtistShare ... interact, and when Hank agreed to record Negro spirituals with him, he jumped at the chance. «Audiophile Audition, Jul 15»
7
Local woman's coral reef research combines interest in science, music
NEW BERLIN – In part because New Berlin native Madz Negro feared running out of career options, the scientific world now has more ... «The State Journal-Register, Jul 15»
8
Negro baseball league to hold reunion
An upcoming reunion of players on former negro baseball teams in the region launches talks for a Delmarva Negro Baseball Organization. «Delmarva Daily Times, Jul 15»
9
Work has started on new Spanish restaurant El Gato Negro - which …
“El Gato Negro Manchester will be a very different space for the city. A lot of the materials used will be reclaimed to refresh and repurpose ... «Manchester Evening News, Jul 15»
10
McGann asks council to support name change for Negro Bill Canyon
Grand County Council Member Mary McGann says she has been troubled for many years by the name of Negro Bill Canyon. This week, she ... «Moab Times Independent, Jul 15»

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