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black adjective

  /blæk/
  • (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
noir, noire
  • (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
  • (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
  • Bad; evil; ill-omened.
  • (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
  • (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
  • Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
  • Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
  • (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
noir
  • (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
noir de monde

black noun

  /blæk/
  • (countable, and, uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
  • (British, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
noir, noire
  • (sometimes capitalised, countable, often, offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)
  • (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
  • A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
Noir, Noire, noir
  • (countable, and, uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
  • (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
noir

blackness noun

  /ˈblæknəs/
  • The state or quality of being black in colour.
noirceur

Blackness

Blackness

Black

noirs

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Blackness properNoun

Blackness
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