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How to pronounce negro in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms african-american, black, negroid
Type of somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual
Has types pickaninny, picaninny, piccaninny, soul brother
Type Words
Synonyms colored, coloured

Examples of negro

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Negro Leagues memorabilia from Muskegon-area collections also will be on display.
From the freep.com
Her complexion, hair, and features show not the slightest trace of negro blood.
From the theatlantic.com
Negro militancy has siphoned off much support from urban Italians, Irish and Slavs.
From the time.com
The first of all the negro minstrel shows came to town, and made a sensation.
From the sacbee.com
If he called him a negro which is calling him black in Spanish, well he is isn't he?
From the guardian.co.uk
Negro Comedian Bill Cosby wisecracking about the culinary problems of primitive man.
From the time.com
It's not because Obama has some negro blood that we see he can't be trusted.
From the swampland.time.com
Whether he will or not, a white man respects a negro who owns a two-story brick house.
From the theatlantic.com
There we found Don Valente Nieto Real, a master of Oaxacan pottery style barro negro.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • Black: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
  • Relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair
  • The word Negro is used in the English-speaking world to refer to a person of black ancestry or appearance, whether of African descent or not, prior to the shift in the lexicon of American and worldwide classification of race and ethnicity in the late 1960s. ...
  • The Negro is a book by W. E. B. Du Bois published in 1915. The book is an overview of African-American history, tracing it as far back as the sub-Saharan cultures, including Zimbabwe, Ghana and Songhai, as well as covering the history of the slave trade and the history of Africans in the United ...
  • A person with black or dark brown skin
  • Alternative capitalization of Negro; Relating to the black ethnicity; Black or dark brown in color
  • (Negroes) Black people. This is an old fashioned name for black people that we don't use today.
  • Means "fl" in the Spanish, Portuguese and ancient Italian languages, being derived from the Latin word niger of the same meaning.
  • Term used to describe a man of African descent throughout the 18th to 20th centuries; the word is considered derogatory and unacceptable today