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/nˈigroʊ/ Listen

noun

Negro n. (pl. negroes)

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.

A person of dark skin color descended at least in part from African negroes; in the United States, an African-American. (U.S. usage, sometimes considered offensive.)

adjective

Negro adj. Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

Negro bug (Zool.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produces a very disagreeable flavor.

negro corn, the Indian millet or durra; so called in the West Indies. See Durra.

Negro fly (Zool.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosae) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; called also carrot fly.

Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. (Cant)

Negro monkey (Zool.), the moor monkey.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Negro" Quotes from Famous Books

... into Guatemala commenced with the year of the conquest of that country by the Spaniards in 1524, when there came several Negro slaves with the conquistadores from Mexico. It seems that they soon increased in numbers, for among the decrees of the conquistador, Pedro de Alvarado, there is one which prohibits the selling of gunpowder ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various

... were annually swept from the stage of existence by the plague or small-pox, honest men would perhaps be much profited by the operation.—Similar too is the correct reasoning in regard to the burning of the negro at St. Louis. He had forfeited his life by the perpetration of an outrageous murder upon one of the most worthy and respectable citizens of the city, and had he not died as he did, he must have died by the sentence of the law in a very short time afterwards. As to him alone, it was as well the way ...

— Lincoln's Inaugurals, Addresses and Letters (Selections) • Abraham Lincoln

... to think what might have happened to Dick when he fell, but he only got a bruise on his knee and a severe injury to his trousers! We reached Laggan about half-past one, and found our cook still much of an invalid, with a real negro to assist him! I think the negroes are much more manly and altogether pleasanter than the half-breeds, who are mean, discontented, and impertinent when they dare. This negro was a capital servant, and had lived with his present master ...

— The British Association's visit to Montreal, 1884: Letters • Clara Rayleigh

... rock, in which a slight warmth was perceptible from the contact farther away with the blaze, Deerfoot's thoughts drifted to other places, scenes and persons. He recalled his rambles with Ned Preston, Jo Springer, Jim Turner and the quaint negro youth known as "Blossom," when all passed through many stirring experiences, as you learned long since in the "Boy Pioneer Series;" and of Jack Carleton and Otto Relstaub in the "Log Cabin" stories. Fred Linden and Terry Clark were ...

— Deerfoot in The Mountains • Edward S. Ellis

... 1896, there was published, under the auspices of the American Economic Association, a work entitled "Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro," by Frederick L. Hoffman, F. S. S., statistician to the Prudential Insurance Company of America. This work presents by far the most thorough and comprehensive treatment of the Negro problem, from a statistical standpoint, which has yet appeared. In fact, it may be regarded as ...

— A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 1 • Kelly Miller

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