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Color/black; Color/Black; Blackeness; Black (color); Black (Colour); Black (colour); Blackest; Blackly; (0, 0, 0); Rgb(0, 0, 0); 000000

(blacker, blackest, blacks, blacking, blacked)

Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.

Something that is black is of the darkest colour that there is, the colour of the sky at night when there is no light at all.

She was wearing a black coat with a white collar...

He had thick black hair...

I wear a lot of black...

He was dressed all in black.

COLOUR

A black person belongs to a race of people with dark skins, especially a race from Africa.

He worked for the rights of black people...

...the traditions of the black community.

ADJ

Black people are sometimes referred to as blacks. This use could cause offence.

There are about thirty-one million blacks in the US.

N-COUNT: usu pl

Black coffee or tea has no milk or cream added to it.

A cup of black tea or black coffee contains no calories...

I drink coffee black.

ADJ: ADJ n, v n ADJ

If you describe a situation as black, you are emphasizing that it is very bad indeed.

It was, he said later, one of the blackest days of his political career...

The future for the industry looks even blacker.

ADJ [emphasis]

If someone is in a black mood, they feel very miserable and depressed.

Her mood was blacker than ever.

ADJ

Black humour involves jokes about sad or difficult situations.

'So you can all go over there and get shot,' he said, with the sort of black humour common among British troops here...

It's a black comedy of racial prejudice, mistaken identity and thwarted expectations.

ADJ: usu ADJ n

People who believe in black magic believe that it is possible to communicate with evil spirits.

He was also alleged to have conducted black magic ceremonies...

The King was unjustly accused of practising the black arts.

ADJ: ADJ n

If you say that someone is black and blue, you mean that they are badly bruised.

Whenever she refused, he'd beat her black and blue...

Bud's nose was still black and blue.

PHRASE: usu PHR after v, v-link PHR

10.

If a person or an organization is in the black, they do not owe anyone any money.

Until his finances are in the black I don't want to get married.

? in the red

PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR after v

11.

If someone gives you a black look, they look at you in a way that shows that they are very angry about something.

Passing my stall, she cast black looks at the amount of stuff still unsold.

PHRASE: N inflects, usu PHR after v

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Color/black; Color/Black; Blackeness; Black (color); Black (Colour); Black (colour); Blackest; Blackly; (0, 0, 0); Rgb(0, 0, 0); 000000

¦ adjective

1. of the very darkest colour due to the absence of or complete absorption of light.

(of coffee or tea) served without milk.

2. relating to or denoting a human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry.

3. characterized by tragedy, disaster, or despair.

(of humour) presenting tragic or harrowing situations in comic terms.

full of anger or hatred.

4. Brit. dated (of goods or work) not to be handled or undertaken by trade union members, as an expression of solidarity with an industrial dispute elsewhere.

5. (of a ski run) of the highest level of difficulty.

6. of or denoting the suits spades and clubs in a pack of cards.

¦ noun

1. black colour or pigment.

black clothes or material, worn as a sign of mourning.

(Black) the player of the black pieces in chess or draughts.

2. a member of a dark-skinned people, especially one of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry.

3. Brit. informal blackcurrant cordialect

¦ verb

1. make black, especially by the application of black polish or make-up.

2. (black something out) make a room or building dark by extinguishing lights, covering windows, etc.

obscure something completely.

(of a television company) decide not to broadcast a controversial programme.

3. (black out) undergo a sudden and temporary loss of consciousness.

4. Brit. dated refuse to deal with (goods or people) or undertake (work), as a form of industrial action.

Phrases

black someone's eye hit someone in the eye so as to cause bruising.

in the black not owing any money.

in someone's black books informal in disfavour with someone.

look on the black side informal take a pessimistic view of a situation.

Derivatives

blackish adjective

blackly adverb

blackness noun

Origin

OE bl?c, of Gmc origin.

Usage

Black has been used to refer to African peoples and their descendants since the 14th century, and it is the most widely used and generally accepted term in Britain today. In the US the currently preferred term is African American.

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