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Definition: Dark-skinned |
Dark-skinnedAdjective1. Having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races"; "dark-skinned peoples". 2. Naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face" (`swart' is archaic). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dark-skinned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
Synonyms: Dark-skinnedSynonyms: colored (adj), coloured (adj), dark (adj), dusky (adj), swart (adj), swarthy (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Dark-skinned |
| English words defined with "dark-skinned": Abo, aboriginal, aborigine, Australian Aborigine ♦ Black race ♦ dusky ♦ native Australian, Negro race, Negroid race ♦ swart, swarthy. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Russia | Moscow police, particularly special duty OMON (special forces unit of the Ministry of Interior) units, conduct frequent document checks, particularly of persons who are dark-skinned or appear to be from the Caucasus. (references) |
Human Rights | Ukraine | Police also abused Roma, particularly in the Transcarpathian region, and harassed and abused dark-skinned persons. (references) |
Hungary | The Romani minority community and dark-skinned foreigners are the most common victims of police abuse, with Roma bearing the brunt of such abuse. (references) | |
Minorities | Trinidad and Tobago | In 1996 there were reports that several popular recreational clubs refused entry to Afro-Trinidadians and dark-skinned Indo-Trinidadians. (references) |
Dominican Republic | Police regulations threaten those offering transportation to illegal immigrants with confiscation of their vehicles and have discouraged taxi and bus drivers from picking up dark-skinned persons. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Dark-skinned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dark-skinned" is used about 22 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dark-skinned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | tummaihoinen (dusky, swarthy), mustaihoinen (black). (various references) | |
German | dunkelhäutig (swarthy). (various references) | |
Greek | μελαχροινόσ (brunet, dark). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szerecsen (black, blackamoor, blacky, moor, moorish, Negro, saracen), fekete (black, collied, dusky, inky, sable, smutty, sooty), barna bőrű (dusky, swart, swarthy), barna (brown, brunette, dusky, swart). (various references) | |
Italian | moro (dark-haired, moor, moorish). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | '奴 (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut, stagehand), '"坊 (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut, stagehand). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くろ"ぼう (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut, stagehand), くろ"ぼ (black person, dark-skinned person, prompter, smut, stagehand), "くど (black person, black soil, black terracotta, dark-skinned person, prompter, realm, smut, stagehand). (various references) | |
Manx | gorrym (black, blue, negroid; washing blue), doochraitnagh, doan (brown, dark looking, swarthy), dhone (brown, brown-haired, hazel, swarthy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ark-skinnedday.(various references) | |
Romanian | negricios (blackish, dark, dark-haired, darkish, dusky, swarthy), brun (black, Brown, dark, dark-haired). (various references) | |
Russian | темнокожий (tawny-moor). (various references) | |
Swedish | mörkhyad. (various references) | |
Turkish | koyu tenli, kara derili, esmer (Blackie, Blacky, brunette, dusky, swart, swarthy, tawny). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-i-k-k-n-n-r-s" | |
-3 letters: insnared, kindreds. | |
-4 letters: daikers, danders, dandier, dandies, darkens, dinners, drained, endrins, innards, insaner, insnare, kidders, kindred, krakens, nardine, randies, redskin, sandier, sardine, skidder, skinked, skinker, skinned, skinner, snakier. | |
-5 letters: adders, aiders, arisen, arsine, daiker, dander, danker, darked, darken, darned, deairs, dedans, denari, denars, desand, dikers, dinars, diners, dinked, dinned, dinner, dirked, disked, drains. | |
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