blax

Noun

black (countable and uncountable, plural blacks)

1. The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
   • Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

   Synonyms:

   blackness

   Antonyms:

   whiteness

2. A black dye or pigment.

   Antonyms:

   white

3. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
4. (in plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
   • Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Death”, in Essays
5. (capitalized, countable, offensive, often, sometimes) A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
   • "How! They surely cannot pretend that the black is an Englishman?" "There are all kinds of Englishmen, black and white, when seamen grow scarce. […]"1863, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter XXIV, in Miles Wallingford

   Synonyms:

   BIPOC, BME, colored, colored person, minority, nonwhite, person of color

6. (informal, uncountable) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
   • black don't crack

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