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Nigritia

Nigritia proper noun: synonym of Negroland, a vague region inland from the Guinea coast, Sub-Saharan Africa or Black Africa generally.

Proper noun

Nigritia

  1. (dated, historical) Synonym of Negroland, a vague region inland from the Guinea coast, Sub-Saharan Africa or Black Africa generally.
    Synonyms:
    Negroland

Synonyms of Nigritia

Origin of Nigritia

From Latin Nigritia, from niger (“shining black”) + -itia (noun-forming suffix).

Words formed from Nigritia

Questions about Nigritia

What does Nigritia mean?
Nigritia means synonym of Negroland, a vague region inland from the Guinea coast, Sub-Saharan Africa or Black Africa generally.
What part of speech is Nigritia?
Nigritia is a proper noun.

Words near Nigritia in the dictionary

  1. nigrine
  2. nigrins
  3. nigrita
  4. nigritas
  5. nigrite
  6. Nigritia
  7. Nigritian
  8. Nigritians
  9. Nigritic
  10. nigritude
  11. nigritudes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nigritia (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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