Black
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English blak (“black”). Also a variant of Blake, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English blāc (“pale”) and Blanc, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French blanc (“white”).
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Black
- A surname transferred from the nickname
Adjective
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, Geoffrey K. Pullum, "African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes", ch. 3 in The Workings of Language (ed. Wheeler, Rebecca S.), p. 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.
- 1999, Geoffrey K. Pullum, "African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes", ch. 3 in The Workings of Language (ed. Wheeler, Rebecca S.), p. 40
Derived terms
Statistics
- 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.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
Black m or f (plural Blacks)
- Alternative letter-case form of black
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