Adjacent Words
black-necked grebeblack-necked stilt
black-necked stork
black-on-black
black-out
black-quarter
black-seeded
black-sheep
black-spotted trout
black-stem spleenwort
black-stemmed spleenwort
black-tailed deer
black-tie
black-whiskered vireo
black-winged stilt
blackback flounder
blackball
Blackballed
Blackballing
Blackband
Blackbeard
blackbeetle
blackbellied or blackbreasted plover
blackberry
blackberry bush
Blackberry lily
blackberry-lily
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid]
Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: irregular from black + Moor Date: 1547 a dark-skinned person;especially black 4a
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. archaic a dark-skinned person, esp. a Negro. Etymology: BLACK + MOOR(2)
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Blackamoor Black"a*moor, n. [Black + Moor.] A negro or negress. --Shak.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
n. Negro, black, black man, moor, blackey.
