Black
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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English blak (“black”). Also a variant of Blake, from Old English blāc (“pale”) and Blanc, from Old French blanc (“white”).
Proper noun[edit]
Black (plural Blacks)
- A surname, from nicknames.
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Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Black is the 174th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 154,738 individuals. Black is most common among White (74.63%) and Black (19.00%) individuals.
Etymology 2[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Black (not comparable)
- Alternative letter-case form of black (“of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin”)
- 1999, Pullum, Geoffrey K., “African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes”, in Wheeler, Rebecca S., editor, The Workings of Language, →ISBN, page 40:
- Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975[sic] but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks.
- 2020 May 31, “Violence, destruction mar Seattle protests over the death of George Floyd”, in The Seattle Times[1], page A1:
- Hundreds of Seattle protesters came together Saturday to voice the sadness and fury that has spread across the country over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after being pinned beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer for almost nine minutes.
Noun[edit]
Black (plural Blacks)
- Alternative letter-case form of black (“person having dark pigmentation of the skin”)
Usage notes[edit]
- See usage notes at black regarding capitalization of the term.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Black m or f (plural Blacks)
- Alternative letter-case form of black
German Low German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Saxon *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blaką. Cognate with English black.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Black n (no plural)
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