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blk

blk is the abbreviation of black.

Meaning of black

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

See all 49 meanings of black

Noun (1) capitalized: BLK

BLK (countable and uncountable, plural BLKs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of B lymphocyte kinase.
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of Blk; A gene that encodes for the enzyme B lymphocyte kinase.

Adjective capitalized: BLK

BLK (not comparable)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of black (eye or hair color).

Noun (2) capitalized: Blk

Blk (countable and uncountable, plural Blks)

  1. A gene that encodes for an enzyme, B-cell lymphocyte kinase (BLK).

Forms of blk

alternative formblk.
pluralBLKs
pluralBlks

Questions about blk

What does blk mean?
Blk means a gene that encodes for an enzyme, B-cell lymphocyte kinase (BLK).
What is blk the abbreviation of?
Blk is the abbreviation of black.
What part of speech is blk?
Blk can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of blk?
The plural of blk is BLKs.

Words near blk in the dictionary

  1. blizzardy
  2. blizzaster
  3. blizzasters
  4. blizzicane
  5. blizzicanes
  6. blk
  7. blk.
  8. blkd.
  9. blkds.
  10. blks.
  11. BLL

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blk (page history and authors); BLK (page history and authors); Blk (page history and authors); black (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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