black british
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A social and cultural group in Britain comprising people of Black ethnic origin, sometimes including people of other nonwhite ethnicity.
noun
A variety of English language spoken by or associated with Black people in Britain.
Uncountable
noun
Alternative letter-case form of black British, a social and cultural group consisting of Black Britons.
Countable; Uncountable
adj
Alternative letter-case form of black British.
Example Sentences
- "Theresa identifies herself as Caribbean, taking distance from those she defines as ‘black British’. The way she defines ‘those’ women is challenged by Beatrice (who does at this moment identify as black British) and Priscilla (who defends and explains the black British without explicitly identifying as such)."
- "Similarly, the black British are always depicted as outsiders to British culture."
- "As the Islamic world replaces Communism as the threat to Western civilisation […] the Caribbean black British seem less alien, untainted by the stigma of religious separatism."
- "By 1980 pictures about black British people were becoming much more angry, explicit and partisan."
- "Black British literature (which is as multifarious as the cast of White Teeth) not only deals with the situation of those who came from former colonies and their descendants, but also with the society which they discovered and continue to shape—and with those societies left behind."
- "Bloom’s Black British dialect is a technical and rhythmic innovation. It is a self conscious attempt to subvert the traditional language of poetry and insist on a merciless difference."
Usage
Phrases
Frequently Paired Words
Synonyms
Black British English
British Black English