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Black British

Black British noun: a variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain. Also the alternative letter-case form of black British.

Noun (1)

Black British (countable and uncountable, plural Black British)

  1. (uncountable) A variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain.
    • Bloom’s Black British dialect is a technical and rhythmic innovation. It is a self conscious attempt to subvert the traditional language of poetry and insist on a merciless difference.1991, Maggie Humm, Border Traffic: Strategies of Contemporary Women Writers, page 59
    • By the time that awareness had been raised in educational circles, the ability to code-switch between the local British dialect and Black British English was widespread; the distinctively Black British variety which was emerging among second-generation children was essentially a marker of identity.2007, Viv Edwards, Multilingualism in the English-Speaking World : Pedigree of Nations, page 126
    Synonyms:
    Black British English, British Black English

Noun (2) capitalized: black British

black British (plural black British)

  1. A social and cultural group in Britain comprising people of Black ethnic origin, sometimes including people of other nonwhite ethnicity.
    • Theresa identifies herself as Caribbean, taking distance from those she defines as ‘black British’. The way she defines ‘those’ women is challenged by Beatrice (who does at this moment identify as black British) and Priscilla (who defends and explains the black British without explicitly...1995, Amina Mama, Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender, and Subjectivity, page 84
    • Similarly, the black British are always depicted as outsiders to British culture.1996, Mantia Diawara, “Black British cinema: spectatorship and identity formation in Territories”, in Houston A. Baker, Manthia Diawara, Ruth H. Lindeborg, editors, Black British Cultural Studies: A...

Adjective capitalized: black British

black British (not comparable)

  1. Of or related to the social and cultural group of Black or other nonwhite Britons.
    • By 1980 pictures about black British people were becoming much more angry, explicit and partisan.1999, David Christopher, British Culture: An Introduction, page 90
    • Black British literature (which is as multifarious as the cast of White Teeth) not only deals with the situation of those who came from former colonies and their descendants, but also with the society which they discovered and continue to shape—and with those societies left behind.2004, Mark Stein, Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation, page xii

Also used as

Black British is also the alternative letter-case form of black British.

Synonyms of Black British

  • Black British English
  • British Black English

Forms of Black British

pluralBlack British
pluralblack British
alternative formBlack British

Questions about Black British

What does Black British mean?
Black British means a variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain.
What part of speech is Black British?
Black British can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of Black British?
The plural of Black British is Black British.

Words near Black British in the dictionary

  1. black bread molds
  2. black bread mould
  3. black breads
  4. black bream
  5. black briony
  6. Black British
  7. Black Brook
  8. black broth
  9. black bryony
  10. black budget
  11. black budgets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Black British (page history and authors); black British (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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