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Noun black has 7 senses
- black, blackness - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
--1 is a kind of achromatic color, achromatic colour
Antonyms: white, whiteness
--1 has particulars:
- total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
--2 is a kind of dark, darkness
- Black, Joseph Black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
--3 is a kind of chemist
- Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple - popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927)
--4 is a kind of actress
- Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
--5 is a kind of person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul; person of color, person of colour
--5 is a member of Black race, Negroid race, Negro race
--5 has particulars: | | Negress; Black man; Black woman; colored person, colored; darky, darkie, darkey; nigger, nigga, spade, coon, jigaboo, nigra; Tom, Uncle Tom; pickaninny, piccaninny, picaninny |
- black - (board games) the darker pieces
--6 is a kind of man, piece
Antonyms: white
- black - black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
--7 is a kind of clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear
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