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BLACK MAN

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 Dictionary entry overview 

BLACK MAN (noun)
  The noun BLACK MAN has 1 sense:

1. a man who is Black

  Familiarity information: BLACK MAN used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BLACK MAN (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is Black

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Black man" is a kind of...):

Black; Black person; blackamoor; Negro; Negroid (a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa))

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Black man"):

soul brother (a fellow Black man)

boy ((ethnic slur) offensive and disparaging term for Black man)


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