black man
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.30 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A male adult member of an ethnic group having dark pigmentation of the skin, typically of sub-Saharan African descent; or the appearance thereof.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A German-derived game of tag, in which the tagging player is called the "black man".
Archaic; Uncountable
noun
Alternative form of black man.
Example Sentences
- "I saw a black man with a dog and a white man on a bicycle."
- "The state's policy of "separate but equal" was really about keeping the black man down."
- "We know how bitter was the contest which freed at once the black man from an enforced subordination and the white master from the moral and spiritual degradation which were inseparable from the unnatural relation in which he stood."
- "Any time there is an opportunity for the Black man in the community to be in that leadership role, the community wants him there."
- "Ever since the Black man was accepted in professional sports, the game quality has constantly risen to new heights"
- "[H]e suspects everything he hears and sees to be a devil, or enchanted, and imagineth a thousand chimeras and visions, which to his thinking he certainly sees, bugbears, talks with black men, ghosts, goblins, etc."