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negro spiritual

negro spiritual noun: a genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music.

Noun (1)

negro spiritual (plural negro spirituals)

  1. A genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music.

Noun (2) capitalized: Negro spiritual

Negro spiritual (plural Negro spirituals)

  1. Synonym of spiritual.
    Synonyms:
    spiritual

Synonyms of negro spiritual

Forms of negro spiritual

pluralnegro spirituals
pluralNegro spirituals

Questions about negro spiritual

What does negro spiritual mean?
Negro spiritual means a genre of African American song, usually with a Christian text, and sung a cappella with no harmony; it developed into gospel music.
What part of speech is negro spiritual?
Negro spiritual is a noun.
What is the plural of negro spiritual?
The plural of negro spiritual is negro spirituals.

Words near negro spiritual in the dictionary

  1. Negro monkeys
  2. Negro nod
  3. Negro nods
  4. negro powder
  5. Negro Question
  6. negro spiritual
  7. negro spirituals
  8. negro yam
  9. negro yams
  10. Negro-African
  11. Negro-American

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Adapted from Wiktionary: negro spiritual (page history and authors); Negro spiritual (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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