blacks
/blæks/
blacks noun: a kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press. Also the plural of black.
Noun (1)
blacks
- A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
- Black garments, etc.
- Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC
- that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes
Proper noun capitalized: Blacks
Blacks
- plural of Black
Noun (2) capitalized: Blacks
Blacks
- plural of Black
Also used as
blacks is also the plural of black.
blacks is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of black.
blacks meaning in Marathi, Malayalam, Kannada and Nepali
blacks in Marathi
- कृष्णवर्णीयांना
blacks in Malayalam
- കറുത്തവർ, കറുപ്പുകൾ
blacks in Kannada
- ಕಪ್ಪುಗಳು, ಕರಿಯರು
blacks in Nepali
- कालोहरू
Phrases with blacks
- blacks in
- blacks up
- All Blacks
- blacks out
- coal blacks
- long blacks
- Tall Blacks
- mulga blacks
- Penny Blacks
- short blacks
- smoky blacks
- Welsh Blacks
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Words that rhyme with blacks
Questions about blacks
- What does blacks mean?
- Blacks means a kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
- What is blacks in Marathi?
- Blacks in Marathi is कृष्णवर्णीयांना. See Blacks meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is blacks?
- Blacks can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce blacks?
- Blacks is pronounced /blæks/.
Words near blacks in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: blacks (page history and authors); Blacks (page history and authors); blacks (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blacks (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blacks (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); blacks (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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