negro spiritual

1. 1.

   a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States

   Synonymsspiritual

   Broaderreligious song

Questions about negro spiritual

What does negro spiritual mean?

negro spiritual means "a kind of religious song originated by Blacks in the southern United States".

What is another word for negro spiritual?

Close synonyms include spiritual. 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 spiritual a common word?

negro spiritual is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.