Meaning of black | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
2. Alternative letter-case form of black (“of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin”).
   alt-of, not-comparable
3. black (the color perceived in the absence of light)
4. Without light.
5. a black person; a person of black African descent
6. To become black.
7. Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
   capitalized, sometimes
8. a member of any typically dark-skinned people
9. To make dirty:befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully.
10. Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
    South-Africa, UK, US, capitalized, sometimes
11. ghost writer
12. to make black. swart smeer يُسوِّد، يصبُغُ بالأسْوَد начерням enegrecer (na)černit schwärzen farve sort; mørklægge κάνω κτ. μαύρο ennegrecer, volver negro mustaks tegema سیاه کردن mustata noircir לְהַשְׁחִיר काला करना ocrniti (be)feketít menghitamkan sverta annerire 黒くする 검게 하다 juodinti krāsot melnu; nomelnot menghitamkan zwart makenfarge svart, sverte uczernić تور رنګول enegrecer a înnegri красить в чёрное černieť počrniti ofarbati u crno svärta ทำให้ดำ karar(t)mak 使變黑 чорнити; фарбувати в чо...
13. Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
    historical
14. nigger, nigga
15. swartheid, duisternis سَواد чернота pretume čerň; temnota die Schwärze sorthed μαυρίλαnegrura, oscuridad must värvus سیاهی؛ تاریکی pimeys noirceurקדרות कालापन crnilo feketeség kehitaman sorti nerezza; oscurità 黒さ 검음, 어둠 juodumas melnums; tumšums kehitaman zwartheidsvarthet czerń ټیاړه pretume negreală чернота čerň, temnota črnina crnilo svarthet, svärta, mörker ความดำมืด karalık, siyahlık 黑色 чорнота, темрява سیاہی sự tối tăm; sự độc ác 黑色，黑暗
16. Of the spades or clubs suits.
17. magic performed for evil reasons. He tries to practise black magic. swart kuns, toorkuns السِّحْر الأسْوَد(لأغْراض شِرّيرَه) черна магия magia negra černá magie die Schwarze Magie sort magi μαύρη μαγεία magia negra must maagia جادو؛ سحر musta magia magie noire מַגיָה שחוֹרָה काला जादू crna magija fekete mágia ilmu hitam svartigaldur magia nera 妖術 마법, 마술 juodoji magija melnā maģija ilmu sihir zwarte kunst svartekunst, svart magi czarna magia جادو magia negra magie neagră чёрная магия čierna má...
18. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
19. a dark-coloured bird of the thrush family. swartvoël, lyster شُحرور кос melro kos die Amsel solsort κοτσύφιmirlo musträstas سیه پر mustarastas merle קִיכְלִי कस्तूरक, कोयल की जाति का एक यूरोपीय पक्षी kos fekete rigó jalak hitam svartþröstur merlo クロウタドリの類 지빠귀의 일종 juodasis strazdas melnais strazds burung hitam merelsvarttrostkos توره مرغۍ، هره مرغۍ چه نريې تور وى melro mierlă чёрный дрозд drozd kos kos koltrast นกยุโรปชนิดหนึ่ง karatavuk (英)畫眉，(美)燕八哥 чорний дрізд سیاہ رنگ کا پرندہ chim két 画眉，燕八哥
20. Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
21. a dark-coloured board for writing on in chalk (used especially in schools). swartbord سبّوره، لَوْحٌ أسْوَد черна дъска quadro negro černá (školní) tabule die Tafel tavle πίνακας κιμωλίας pizarra tahvel تخته سیاه liitutaulu tableauלוח ब्लैकबोर्ड, श्यामपट्ट ploča tábla papan tulis veggtafla; skólatafla lavagna 黒板 칠판 lenta tāfele papan hitam bordtavletablica توره تخته quadro preto tablă классная доска (čierna) tabuľa tabla crna tabla svart tavla กระดานดำ karatahta 黑板 класна дошка تختہ سیاہ bảng...
    especially
22. Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
23. a built-in machine for automatic recording of the details of a plane's flight. They found the black box two miles away from the wreckage of the crashed plane. vlugopnemer العُلبَةُ السَّوْداء черна кутия caixa preta černá skříňka der Flugschreiber sort boks μαύρο κουτί αεροπλάνου caja negra must kast جعبۀ سیاه musta laatikko boîte noire קוּפסָה שְׁחוֹרָה जहाज की उड़ान की स्वत:रिकार्ड रखने वाली मशीन crna kutija fekete doboz kotak hitam flugriti, svartur kassi scatola nera ブラックボックス 비행 기록 장치 juo...
24. Foul; dirty, soiled.
25. the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries. Swart Dood المَوْتُ الأسْوَد (الطّاعون) чума Peste negra mor die Pest den sorte død επιδημία πανούκλαςpeste negra must surm, muhkkatk سیاه مرگ؛ طاعون خیارکی musta surma La peste noire הַמָגֵיפָה הַשׁחוֹרָה 14वीं से 18 सदी के बीच यूरोप में बड़ी संख्या में लोगों की जान लेने वाली प्लेग की बीमारी crna smrt fekete halál, pestis Wabah Pes peste nera ペスト､黒死病 흑사병 juodoji mirtis ´melnā nāve´ (mēris) Maut Hitam Zwar...
26. Overcrowded.
    Ireland, informal
27. an eye with bad bruising around it (eg from a punch). George gave me a black eye. blou oog عَيْنٌ مُتَوَرِّمَه посиняло от удар око olho roxo monokl das blaue Auge blåt øje μαυρισμένο μάτι ojo amoratado/morado/a la funerala/a la virulé siniseks löödud silm چشم کبود musta silmä oeil au beurre noir “פָּנַס בַּעָין” आंख पर चोट लगना modrica véraláfutásos szem mata lebam glóðarauga occhio nero 目のまわりの黒いあざ 눈 언저리의 검은 멍 mėlynė paakyje zila acs mata lebam blauw oog blått øye podbite oko توره سترگه olho...
    eg
28. Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
29. Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
30. Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
31. Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
32. Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
    German
33. Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
34. Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
35. Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
    Ireland, derogatory
36. Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
37. Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
    especially
38. Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
    Singapore, Singlish

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Examples

“The items around him were black in colour.”

“The scandal of a lie is in a manner lost and annihilated when diffused among several thousands; as a drop of the blackest tincture wears away and vanishes when mixed and confused in a considerable body of water; the blot is still in it, but is not able to discover itself.”

“Somebody tell me, what can I do / Something is holding me back / Is it because I'm black?”

“I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States.”

“I am a young, light-skinned black woman, and truer words were never written of the problem we light-skinned blacks have had to live with. The article explains in-depth what it's like.”

“The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.”

“black drinking fountain; black hospital”

“I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.”

“black magic”

“[…] what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.”

“Nor were there wanting some, who, after the departure of Jenny, insinuated that she was spirited away with a design too black to be mentioned, and who gave frequent hints that a legal inquiry ought to be made into the whole matter, and that some people should be forced to produce the girl.”

“She had seen so much of the blacker side of human nature that blackness no longer startled her as it should do.”

“He shot her a black look.”

“The lassie had grace given her to refuse, but with a woeful heart, and Heriotside rode off in black discontent, leaving poor Ailie to sigh her love. He came back the next day and the next, but aye he got the same answer.”

“We see the impression that the perils of these unknown seas made on Minoan art in a clay seal impression that comes from Knossos. A sea monster, with head and jaws like a dog's, is rising from the waves and attacking a boatman who stands defending himself in his skiff. […] This is the black side of the sense of "the magic and the mystery of the sea" that finds a lighter expression in the octopus and sea-shell designs of the vases, and the flying fish on porcelain and frescoes.”

“Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.”

“Then trip him, that his heeles may kicke at Heauen, / And that his Soule may be as damn'd aud blacke / As Hell, whereto it goes.”

“Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.”

“The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.”

“Consequently, in the initial position the white pieces and pawns are placed on the first and second ranks; the black pieces and pawns on the eighth and seventh ranks.”

“Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ (“WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX”); ☛ (“BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX”).”

“After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.”

“5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.”

“black operations/black ops; black room; black site”

“Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.”

“But a hel-rúne was one who knew secret black knowledge – and the association of hell with the dead shows that the gloss in O.H.G. 'necromancia' is very close.”

“the Black North”

Ulster

“the Royal Black Institution”

“There is a district, comprehending Donegal, the interior of the county of Derry, and the western side of Tyrone, which is emphatically called by the people "the Black North," an expression not meant, as I conceive, to mark its greater exposure to the westerly winds, but rather its dreary aspect.”

“Even in the "black North"—in " Protestant Ulster"—Catholicity is progressing at a rate that must strike terror into its enemies, and impart pride and hope to the professors of the faith of our sainted forefathers.”

“To the southern Nationalist the north was chiefly known as the home of the most rabid religious and political intolerance perhaps in the whole Christian world; it was designated by the comprehensive title of the 'Black North.'”

“Now April's brother, once also holding a commission in that regiment, was an Ulster Volunteer, her father a staunch, black Protestant, her family tremulously "loyal" to the country whose Parliament was turning them out of its councils.”

“He [Sir John Henry Biggart] was personally amused at having once been called "a black bastard".”

“He had been playing Gaelic football for Lisnaskea Emmets, his local team in County Fermanagh, against a team from nearby Brookeborough, when someone from the opposing team called him a ‘black cunt’. ‘Black’, in this case, was a reference not to the colour of his skin but to his religion. It is short for ‘Black Protestant’, a long-standing term of sectarian abuse.”

“the black knight; black bile”

“black birch; black locust; black rhino”

“They gave up trying to talk to me. Ever since I gave them that big scolding. But every time they see me, all face black black.”

“It contained an article written by Lacy Banko summarizing the work of Dr. Herbert Hendin, who had done a comparative study on suicide among Black people in the major American cities. Dr. Hendin found that the suicide rate among Black men between the ages of nineteen and thirty-five had doubled in the past ten to fifteen years, surpassing the rate for whites in the same age range.”

“A group of Black women came in later but only observed from the sidelines.”

“Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975^([sic]) but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks.”

“Hundreds of Seattle protesters came together Saturday to voice the sadness and fury that has spread across the country over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after being pinned beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer for almost nine minutes.”

“By 2016, however, a divide that started appearing in the preceding few years came into full relief—that year, 29% of nonwhite liberals (28% of nonwhite Democrats) and 38% of Black liberals (34% of Black Democrats), disagreed that “Blacks should work their way up without special favors.””

CEFR level