Dictionary

Negro en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɪɡɹə/ (Southern-US, dated)
• /ˈniːɡɹoʊ/ (US)
• /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/ (UK)

Meanings

1. (in-compounds, not-comparable, qualifier:usually hyphenated) Pertaining to the panethnic or ethnolinguistic groups associated with the proposed Negro-African superphylum.
   • The Negro-African language theory was proposed.

Negro en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɪɡɹə/ (Southern-US, dated)
• /ˈniːɡɹoʊ/ (US)
• /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/ (UK)

Meanings

1. (alt-of, dated, offensive, usually) Alternative letter-case form of negro.
   alt of negro
   • 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.
   • The rickets were sold to sex-starved who had weird ideas about Negro women. 1953 August 6, Jet, volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, →ISSN, pages 21-22:

Forms

Deriveds

Negro-Egyptian · Negrophobe · Negress · negress · Negro Question · Negrophobia · Negroness · magic Negro · negrette · Chigro · Negro Felon League · New Negro · negrocentrism · New Negro Movement · Bush Negro · antinegroism · Negrocentric · Negro nod · Negrohood · Negro-American

Negro en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈnɪɡɹə/ (Southern-US, dated)
• /ˈniːɡɹoʊ/ (US)
• /ˈniːɡɹəʊ/ (UK)

Meanings

1. A surname.