Definitions from Wiktionary (Black)
▸ adjective: (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
▸ adjective: (of a location or setting) Without light.
▸ adjective: (sometimes capitalized) 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.)
▸ adjective: (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
▸ adjective: (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
▸ adjective: (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
▸ adjective: Bad; evil; ill-omened.
▸ adjective: Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
▸ adjective: (of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
▸ adjective: Foul; dirty, soiled.
▸ adjective: (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
▸ adjective: (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
▸ adjective: (board games, chess) 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).
▸ adjective: (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
▸ adjective: (politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
▸ adjective: (German politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
▸ adjective: Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
▸ adjective: Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
▸ adjective: (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
▸ adjective: Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
▸ adjective: (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
▸ adjective: (Singapore, Singlish, of someone's face) Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
▸ noun: (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
▸ noun: (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
▸ noun: (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
▸ noun: (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
▸ noun: (countable, sometimes capitalised, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
▸ noun: (uncountable, informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
▸ noun: (countable, billiards, snooker, pool) The black ball.
▸ noun: (countable, baseball) The edge of home plate.
▸ noun: (countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
▸ noun: (chiefly UK) Blackcurrant as syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
▸ noun: (countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
▸ noun: (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
▸ noun: (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
▸ noun: A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
▸ noun: (US, slang) Marijuana.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make black; to blacken.
▸ verb: (transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
▸ verb: (British, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
▸ noun: A surname transferred from the nickname.
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun: A town in Geneva County, Alabama.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois.
▸ noun: A township in Posey County, Indiana; from the surname.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Reynolds County, Missouri.
▸ noun: A township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; from the surname.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Mercer County and Wyoming County, West Virginia.
▸ noun: (countable, informal) Short for blackcurrant. [A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.]
▸ adjective: (chiefly Canada, US, often UK) Alternative letter-case form of black (“of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin”). [(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.]
▸ noun: Alternative letter-case form of black (“person having dark pigmentation of the skin”). [(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.]
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▸ adjective: (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
▸ adjective: (of a location or setting) Without light.
▸ adjective: (sometimes capitalized) 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.)
▸ adjective: (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
▸ adjective: (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
▸ adjective: (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
▸ adjective: Bad; evil; ill-omened.
▸ adjective: Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
▸ adjective: (of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
▸ adjective: Foul; dirty, soiled.
▸ adjective: (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
▸ adjective: (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
▸ adjective: (board games, chess) 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).
▸ adjective: (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
▸ adjective: (politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
▸ adjective: (German politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
▸ adjective: Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
▸ adjective: Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
▸ adjective: (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
▸ adjective: Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
▸ adjective: (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
▸ adjective: (Singapore, Singlish, of someone's face) Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
▸ noun: (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
▸ noun: (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
▸ noun: (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
▸ noun: (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
▸ noun: (countable, sometimes capitalised, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
▸ noun: (uncountable, informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
▸ noun: (countable, billiards, snooker, pool) The black ball.
▸ noun: (countable, baseball) The edge of home plate.
▸ noun: (countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
▸ noun: (chiefly UK) Blackcurrant as syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
▸ noun: (countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
▸ noun: (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
▸ noun: (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
▸ noun: A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
▸ noun: (US, slang) Marijuana.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make black; to blacken.
▸ verb: (transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
▸ verb: (British, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
▸ noun: A surname transferred from the nickname.
▸ noun: A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun: A town in Geneva County, Alabama.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois.
▸ noun: A township in Posey County, Indiana; from the surname.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Reynolds County, Missouri.
▸ noun: A township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; from the surname.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Mercer County and Wyoming County, West Virginia.
▸ noun: (countable, informal) Short for blackcurrant. [A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.]
▸ adjective: (chiefly Canada, US, often UK) Alternative letter-case form of black (“of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin”). [(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.]
▸ noun: Alternative letter-case form of black (“person having dark pigmentation of the skin”). [(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.]
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