black belt
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Someone who has attained the black belt in martial arts.
noun
A senior manager who is expert in one of various management systems such as Six Sigma or DMAIC and acts in a project leader or mentor role.
noun
A geographic region where the residents are predominantly or exclusively African-American.
American usage
noun
A roughly crescent-shaped geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of black belt.
Example Sentences
- "Raymond is a black belt in karate."
- "I had the good fortune of being engaged to participate as a trainer to GE Capital Corporation, where we helped to launch their now well-known and highly regarded black belt program."
- "Bernard Cosman found that in Georgia, it was the black belt whites who gave Goldwater his largest percentage of the vote."
- "The Black Belt region, also called the Black Prairie, extends 300 miles across central Alabama and northeast Mississippi and into Tennessee. […] The dark soil for which the Black Belt was named was once famous for its richness and the abundant cotton produced in it."
- "The most politically powerful southerners were those who hailed from the black belt region— distinguished by its dark and fertile soil—which contained the bulk of large-scale plantation and hence the highest percentage of slaves."
- "Together they reveal a national culture split among three regions: cities and their suburbs; rural areas; and what we’re calling the extended Black Belt — a swath that extends from the Mississippi River along the Eastern Seaboard up to Washington, but also including city centers and other places with large nonwhite populations."
Etymology
Usage
- Colloquial
- American usage