Negro
['niːgrəʊ] or ['nigro]
Definition
(adj.) 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 .
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(n.) 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.) Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
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n. one of the black-skinned woolly-haired race in the Soudan and central parts of Africa also their descendants in America.—adj. of or pertaining to the race of black men:—fem. Nē′gress.—ns. Nē′gro-corn the name given in the West Indies to the plant durra or Indian millet; Nē′grohead tobacco soaked in molasses and pressed into cakes so called from its blackness.—adj. Nē′groid.—n. Nē′grōism any peculiarity of speech noticeable among negroes esp. in the southern United States.
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To dream of seeing a negro standing on your green lawn, is a sign that while your immediate future seems filled with prosperity and sweetest joys, there will creep into it unavoidable discord, which will veil all brightness in gloom for a season. To dream of seeing a burly negro, denotes formidable rivals in affection and business. To see a mulatto, constant worries and friction with hirelings is foretold. To dream of a difficulty with a negro, signifies your inability to overcome disagreeable surroundings. It also denotes disappointments and ill fortune. For a young woman to dream of a negro, she will be constrained to work for her own support, or be disappointed in her lover. To dream of negro children, denotes many little anxieties and crosses. For a young woman to dream of being held by a negro, portends for her many disagreeable duties. She is likely to meet with and give displeasure. She will quarrel with her dearest friends. Sickness sometimes follows dreams of old negroes. To see one nude, abject despair, and failure to cope with treachery may follow. Enemies will work you signal harm, and bad news from the absent may be expected. To meet with a trusty negro in a place where he ought not to be, foretells you will be deceived by some person in whom you placed great confidence. You are likely to be much exasperated over the conduct of a servant or some person under your orders. Delays and vexations may follow. To think that you are preaching to negroes is a warning to protect your interest, as false friends are dealing surreptitiously with you. To hear a negro preaching denotes you will be greatly worried over material matters and servants are giving cause for uneasiness. See Mulatto.
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n. The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: 'Let n = the white man. ' This however appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.
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One who votes your way. NIGGER,One who doesn't."
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Examples
- Could you determine, for example, solely from fingerprints whether the subject was Negro or Caucasian? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It is hoped that these facts will demonstrate to the Northern people that negro soldiers cannot cope with Southerners. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In those days the natives around these forests (who were half Indian and half Negro) happened to find some of this juice sticking on the tree. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He saw vividly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I want to take up Wilberforce's and Romilly's line, you know, and work at Negro Emancipation, Criminal Law--that kind of thing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I do not believe that the majority of the Northern people at that time were in favor of negro suffrage. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- O, mamma, said a boy, who had just come up from below, there's a negro trader on board, and he's brought four or five slaves down there. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- In all European colonies, the culture of the sugar-cane is carried on by negro slaves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And whether it is negro slavery or a vicious sexual bondage, the actual advance comes from substitutions injected into society by dynamic social forces. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Rum is a very important article in the trade which the Americans carry on to the coast of Africa, from which they bring back negro slaves in return. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Livingstone states that good domestic breeds are highly valued by the negroes in the interior of Africa who have not associated with Europeans. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Some are Negroes and some are not, Pilar said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They are particularly uncomely Jews, Arabs, and negroes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Both negroes grinned a horrid grin, at this intimation. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Sat and smoked his pipe, and said the infant negroes were--what did he say the infant negroes were? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Said the infant negroes were little humbugs,' repeated Mrs. Weller. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There may be Negroes and rare beasts from Africa. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the Southern States, culture among the negroes is openly deplored, and I do not blame any patriarch for dreading the education of women. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In this tone he slowly recited the following paragraph: EXECUTOR'S SALE,--NEGROES! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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