NEGROES

Definition: NEGROES

NEGROES

Plural

1. Of Negro

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "NEGROES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: NEGROES

Crosswords: NEGROES

Books

• Great Negroes Past and Present (reference)

• South Carolina Negroes, 1877-1900 (Southern Classics Series) (reference)

• The gift of black folk; the Negroes in the making of America (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• When Negroes Walked the Earth (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Negroes trawling for crabs on the Virginia and North Carolina coast Drawing by H. W. Elliott. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Civil war soldiers marching, followed by Negroes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Not Negroes! Not women! Not gays! / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

To be sold, on board the ship Bance Island, ... negroes, just arrived from the Windward & Rice Coast. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negroes leaving the plough. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negroes mounting Cannon in the works for the attack on Ft. Sumter 1861- Morris Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Berry pickers. Southern New Jersey. These pickers are Negroes brought in by truck from Delaware. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negroes, Waco, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Fourth of July celebration by a group of Negroes, St. Helena Island, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fourth of July picnic by a group of Negroes, St. Helena Island, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

In fact, any education of Negroes was forbidden by law in some states. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Suriname

Thousands of Bush Negroes fled to nearby French Guiana. (references)

Minorities

Liberia

Although the Constitution bans ethnic discrimination, it also provides that only "persons who are Negroes or of Negro descent" may be citizens or own land. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

黑人 (Negro). (various references)

Finnish

neekerit (Africans, blacks, coloured people). (various references)

German

Neger (gobo, idiot card, negro). (various references)

Korean 

흑인 (Negro). (various references)

Pig Latin

egroesnay.(various references)

Misspellings

"NEGROES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nagoreti, Negres, Negresco, Negret, Negrete, Nevros, Nogos, Norges. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: genres, genros, goners, greens.

-2 letters: egers, ernes, erose, genes, genre, genro, goers, goner, gores, gorse, green, grees, ogees, ogres, reges, segno, senor, serge, sneer, snore.

-3 letters: eger, egos, engs, eons, ergo, ergs, erne, erns, eros, gees, gene, gens, goer, goes, gone, gore, gree, noes, nogs, nose, ogee, ogre, ones, ores, rees, regs, roes.

+1 letter: engorges, eringoes, eryngoes, estrogen, generous, kerogens.

+2 letters: congeners, congeries, converges, egression, eloigners, engrossed, engrosser, engrosses, erigerons, erogenous, estrogens, governess, orogenies, personage, progenies, recognise, renegados, reshoeing, roentgens, sloganeer, sovereign, stereoing, undergoes.

+3 letters: concierges, congressed, congresses, cryogenies, egressions, encourages, engrossers, entourages, estrogenic, foreigners, foreseeing, generators, generosity, generously, geomancers, gorinesses, governessy, gravestone, greenhorns, greenhouse, greenrooms, greenstone, greenwoods, habergeons, lorgnettes, newsmonger, orangeades, orangeries, organelles, orogeneses, orogenesis, overdesign, overseeing, oversewing, personages, recognised, recognises, recognizes, recoinages, redingotes, reexposing, regression, renegadoes, reopenings, seignorage, seignories, sloganeers, sovereigns, spongeware, teratogens, ungenerous.