"negro spiritual" meaning in English

See negro spiritual in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: en-uk-negro spiritual.ogg [UK] Forms: negro spirituals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} negro spiritual (plural negro spirituals)
  1. (music) A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music. Wikipedia link: spiritual (music) Categories (topical): Music, Musical genres

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for negro spiritual meaning in English (2.2kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "negro spirituals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "negro spiritual (plural negro spirituals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Music",
          "orig": "en:Music",
          "parents": [
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Musical genres",
          "orig": "en:Musical genres",
          "parents": [
            "Genres",
            "Music",
            "Entertainment",
            "Art",
            "Sound",
            "Culture",
            "Energy",
            "Society",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music."
      ],
      "id": "en-negro_spiritual-en-noun-QDRyGEe4",
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "genre",
          "genre"
        ],
        [
          "African American",
          "African American"
        ],
        [
          "song",
          "song"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ],
        [
          "text",
          "text"
        ],
        [
          "a cappella",
          "a cappella"
        ],
        [
          "harmony",
          "harmony"
        ],
        [
          "gospel music",
          "gospel music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "spiritual (music)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-negro spiritual.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/En-uk-negro_spiritual.ogg/En-uk-negro_spiritual.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/En-uk-negro_spiritual.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "negro spiritual"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "negro spirituals",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "negro spiritual (plural negro spirituals)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Music",
        "en:Musical genres"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "genre",
          "genre"
        ],
        [
          "African American",
          "African American"
        ],
        [
          "song",
          "song"
        ],
        [
          "Christian",
          "Christian"
        ],
        [
          "text",
          "text"
        ],
        [
          "a cappella",
          "a cappella"
        ],
        [
          "harmony",
          "harmony"
        ],
        [
          "gospel music",
          "gospel music"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "spiritual (music)"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-uk-negro spiritual.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/89/En-uk-negro_spiritual.ogg/En-uk-negro_spiritual.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/En-uk-negro_spiritual.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "negro spiritual"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.