"Negro" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/ [UK], /ˈniːɡɹoʊ/ [US], /ˈnɪɡɹə/ [Southern-US, dated] Forms: Negroes [plural], Negros [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|es|s}} Negro (plural Negroes or Negros)
  1. (dated, now usually offensive) Alternative letter-case form of negro. Tags: alt-of, dated, offensive, usually Alternative form of: negro

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "antinegroism"
        },
        {
          "word": "Bush Negro"
        },
        {
          "word": "Chigro"
        },
        {
          "word": "magic Negro"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negress"
        },
        {
          "word": "negress"
        },
        {
          "word": "negrette"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negro-American"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negrocentric"
        },
        {
          "word": "negrocentrism"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negrohood"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negroness"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negro nod"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negrophobe"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negrophobia"
        },
        {
          "word": "Negro Question"
        },
        {
          "word": "New Negro"
        }
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              63,
              68
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          "ref": "1953 August 6, Jet, volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, pages 21-22:",
          "text": "The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail,\nOppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained."
        }
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        "(dated, now usually offensive) Alternative letter-case form of negro."
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈniːɡɹoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈnɪɡɹə/",
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        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "word": "Chigro"
    },
    {
      "word": "magic Negro"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negress"
    },
    {
      "word": "negress"
    },
    {
      "word": "negrette"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negro-American"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negrocentric"
    },
    {
      "word": "negrocentrism"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negrohood"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negroness"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negro nod"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negrophobe"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negrophobia"
    },
    {
      "word": "Negro Question"
    },
    {
      "word": "New Negro"
    }
  ],
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      "form": "Negroes",
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    },
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      "form": "Negros",
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    }
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        {
          "text": "1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail,\nOppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained."
        }
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        "(dated, now usually offensive) Alternative letter-case form of negro."
      ],
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        "dated",
        "offensive",
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      "ipa": "/ˈniːɡɹəʊ/",
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈniːɡɹoʊ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnɪɡɹə/",
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        "Southern-US",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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