negro

Other forms of negro

plural

negroes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about negro

What does negro mean?

negro means "a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in negro?

negro has 2 syllables: ne-gro. The stress falls on "ne". In IPA it is /ˈniɡɹoʊ/.

What is another word for negro?

Close synonyms include Black, African-American, Negroid, colored, coloured. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is negro a common word?

negro is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.