Synonyms for negro
ˈni groʊne·gro

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1. Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroidadjective

   a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

   Synonyms:
   inkiness, pitch blackness, blackness, blackamoor, lightlessness, total darkness

   Antonyms:
   white

2. negroadjective

   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

   Antonyms:
   white

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1. negroadjective

   Synonyms:
   negritic, african, ethiopian, negroid

2. negronoun

   Synonyms:
   African, blackamoor, Ethiopian, Nigritian, Senegambian, Mandingo, negrillo, Papuan, Krooman, darkey, buck, nigger, (of mixed blood) mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, mestee, Zambo, Sambo, sacatra

   Associated words:
   negrophile, negrophilist, negrophilism, negrophobia

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1. List of paraphrases for "negro":

   nigger, black, nigga, dark, noir

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How to use negro in a sentence?

1. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way.

2. Eleanor Holmes Norton:

   Although formerly enslaved Americans paid for this statue, the design and sculpting process was done without their input or participation, and it shows, the statue fails to depict how enslaved African Americans pressed for their own emancipation. At the time, they had only recently been liberated from slavery and were grateful for any recognition of their freedom. However, in his keynote address at the unveiling of the statue, Frederick Douglass pointedly did not praise the statue, and, indeed, in private remarks, went as far as to say, it ‘showed the Negro on his knee when a more manly attitude would have been indicative of freedom.’.

3. Robert Francis Kennedy:

   If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

4. Doc Rivers:

   I loved it until Vinny Del Negro got the guy on fire and then they would tell me to go stop him, we used to call him Vinny Kerosene some nights because I would go in and go, ‘The guy’s on fire. I’ve got to guard him?’ We would laugh about it.

5. Host Morris O'Kelly:

   I'm sorry you're arguing with Roger Stone ? I thought we were having just a very spirited conversation, what happened ? ... You said something about' Negro.'.