black•a•moor
We found 7 definitions of blackamoor from 5 different sources.
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blackamoor - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) | ||
Black, Black person, Negro, Negroid | ||
mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
person of color, person of colour (formal) any non-European non-white person | ||
black race, negro race, negroid race a dark-skinned race | ||
africa the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean | ||
archaicism, archaism the use of an archaic expression | ||
ethnic slur a slur on someone's race or language | ||
negress a Black woman or girl | ||
black man a man who is Black | ||
black woman a woman who is Black | ||
colored, colored person a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | ||
darkey, darkie, darky (ethnic slur) offensive term for Black people | ||
jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, coon, spade (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" | ||
uncle tom, tom a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe |