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A black female.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, literary
Qualifier: now offensive and an ethnic slur
Examples
- 1995, A. J. Verdelle, The Good Negress (book title)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: negrette, niggerette, niggeress, niggress, nigress, BIPOC, BME, colored, colored person, minority, nonwhite, person of color
Antonyms: none provided
Alternative letter-case form of negress.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a Black woman or girl
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
From French négresse, from nègre. Equivalent to Negro + -ess.
From French négresse, feminine of nègre, equivalent to Negro + -ess.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
زِنْجِيَّة
(zinjiyya)
— black female
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Arabic:
زَنْجِيَّة
(zanjiyya)
— black female
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Arabic:
سَوْدَاء
(sawdāʔ)
— black female
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Belarusian:
негрыця́нка
(njehrycjánka)
— black female
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Bulgarian:
не́гърка
(négǎrka)
— black female
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Czech:
černoška
— black female
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Danish:
negerinde
— black female
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Dutch:
negerin
— black female
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Dutch:
negervrouw
— black female
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Dutch:
zwarte
— black female
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Esperanto:
negrino
— black female
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Finnish:
neekerinainen
— black female
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French:
négresse
— black female
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French:
noire
— black female
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German:
Negerin
— black female
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German:
Mohrin
— black female
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Greek:
νέγρη
(négri)
— black female
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Greek:
αραπίνα
(arapína)
— black female
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Italian:
nera
— black female
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Italian:
negra
— black female
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Lithuanian:
negrė
— black female
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Macedonian:
црнка
(crnka)
— black female
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Persian:
ددهسیاه
(dade-siyâh)
— black female
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Polish:
murzynka
— black female
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Portuguese:
negra
— black female
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Romanian:
negresă
— black female
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Russian:
негритя́нка
(negritjánka)
— black female
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Serbo-Croatian:
црнкиња
— black female
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Serbo-Croatian:
crnkinja
— black female
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Slovak:
černoška
— black female
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Spanish:
negra
— black female
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Spanish:
niche
— black female
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Swedish:
negrinna
— black female
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Swedish:
negress
— black female
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Ukrainian:
му́ринка
(múrynka)
— black female
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Ukrainian:
негритя́нка
(nehrytjánka)
— black female