negro

adj

1. (dated, not-comparable, offensive)Relating to a black ethnicity.

   “Recently, on a wintry Sunday, some 2,500 white Chicago area residents embarked on a strange safari across the city, determined to do what most of them had never done before—visit a Negro home. Eager to purge themselves of ignorance about the city's "other half," they were participants in Interracial Home Visit Day, a "Coffee Klatsch" co-sponsored by local Catholic, Jewish and Protestant groups in an effort to eliminate racial bigotry and hate.”

2. (dated, not-comparable, offensive)Black or dark brown in color.
3. (in-compounds, not-comparable)Pertaining to the panethnic or ethnolinguistic groups associated with the proposed Negro-African superphylum.

   “The Negro-African language theory was proposed.”

noun

1. (dated, offensive)A person of black African ancestry.

   “The negroes believe that its presence has a sanitary effect upon their cattle […]”

   “What Peter said was true but she hated to hear it from a negro and a family negro, too. Not to stand high in the opinion of one's servants was a humiliating a thing as could happen to a Southerner.”

   “There were two negros who were guilty of thieving; he went and had them both shot, and gave notice that he would put all to death who kept disturbing the property of the white people, and kept confusion in their land.”

   “His parents had always said that the area he grew up in had been a nice place to live before 'those Negros invaded'.”

2. (archaic)A slave, especially one of African ancestry.

   “We don't want your Negroes, or your horses, or your lands, or any thing you have, but we do want and will have a just obedience to the laws of the United States. That we will have, and if it involved the destruction of your improvements, we cannot help it.”

3. (alt-of, dated, offensive, usually)Alternative letter-case form of negro.

   “The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women.”

   “1963, Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Oppressed 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.”

name

1. A surname.