black music

Questions about black music

What is another word for black music?

It depends which black music you mean. In the sense “music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses”, the synonyms are African-American music. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of black music?

WordNet records no antonym for black music. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for black music come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of black music

• Full entry for black musicAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for black musicWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.