Definition of NEGRO

negro

Meanings

Plural: negroes, negros

Noun

  • a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
  • A person of Black African ancestry.

Adjective Satellite

  • relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair

Adj

  • Relating to a black ethnicity.
  • Black or dark brown in color.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese negro (“black”), from Latin nigrum (“shiny black”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Indo-European *negʷ- (“bare; night”). Doublet of noir.

Synonyms

African-American, Black, black, Black person, blackamoor, Negroid

Scrabble Score: 6

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negro is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 0

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