Definition of Black

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Definition of Black

Black

Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.

A black pigment or dye.

A person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

A black garment or dress; as, she wears black

Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.

The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.

A stain; a spot; a smooch.

To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

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Black Quotations

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama

Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
Vince Lombardi

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan

I wasn't always black... there was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger.
Bill Cosby

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Bill Cosby

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
Muhammad Ali

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
Steven Wright

Black Translations

black in Afrikaans is swart
black in Danish is sort
black in Dutch is zwart
black in Finnish is musta
black in German is schwarz, schwarz, unsauber
black in Italian is nera, negro, nero, negro
black in Latin is niger
black in Norwegian is svart
black in Portuguese is preto, negro
black in Swedish is svart

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