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  1. adjective Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
  2. adjective Having little or no light: a black, moonless night.
  3. adjective Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the Black population of South Africa.
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  • But this black was the color of the tents of the country I would say," observed Doc Savage, "that we have arrived none too soon. —  047 - Land Of Long Ju Ju
  • While there had been no dramatic change in Ted's emotional state as yet, he suffered from fewer of what he called his black-and-blue days, and occasionally I caught a glimpse of the cheerful, quixotic man of old. —  Muller, Marcia - [15] Till the Butchers cut him down.htm
  • The colour black is about power, style, evil and mourning. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Police say the first robber is described as a black, approximately 22-years-old, 5-foot-8,
  • One suspect was described as a black, about 5-feet-7 with an average build. —  pjstar.com Home RSS
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English blak, from Old English blæc; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English blak, blek, bleke, from Anglo-Saxon blæc (in def. inflection blaca, blace, sometimes with long vowel blāca, blāce, and thus confused with blāc, blǣc, Middle English blake, etc., shining, white (see bleak), = Old High German (in comp.) blah, blach), black, = (with apparently different orig. suffix) Icelandic blakkr, dark, dusky, = Swedish black, grayish, dark, = Danish blak, dark (whence the noun, Anglo-Saxon blæc = Middle Low German black, Low German blak = Middle High German black = Icelandic blek = Swedish bläck = Dan blæk, ink: see bleck); prob. from a verb representing secondarily by D. blaken, burn, scorch, freq. blakeren, scorch, Middle Low German (later G.) blaken, burn with much smoke, Low German verblekken, scorch as the sun scorches grain; perhaps akin to L. flagrare, Greek φλέγειν, burn: see flagrant, flame, phlegm. Hence blatch, bleck, bletch, bleach; but not connected, unless remotely, with bleak, bleach, q. v.
  2. from Middle English blacken, blaken; from black, adjective
 

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