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Negritude

Definition: Negritude

Negritude

Noun

1. An ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Commercial Usage: Negritude

DomainTitle

Books

  • Black Writers in French: A Literary History of Negritude (reference)

  • Negritude and Literary Criticism: The History and Theory of "Negro-African" Literature in French (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) (reference)

  • Negritude As a Theme in the Poetry of the Portuguese-Speaking World (University of Florida Monographs. Humanities, No. 31.) (reference)

  • Negritude Women (reference)

  • Race, Culture and Identity in Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory: From Negritude to Creolite (Francophone Cultures and lite (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Negritude

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

negritude

24

negritude junior

5

movement negritude

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Negritude

Language Translations for "negritude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Italian

  

nerezza (blackness, nigritude). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egritudenay.(various references)

   

Swedish

  

hävdande av negerkulturen. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zenci nitelikleri. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Negritude

Derivations

Words beginning with "negritude": negritudes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Negritude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ingitrude, megditure, negrito. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Negritude

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-r-t-u"

-1 letter: geniture, retinued, reunited.

-2 letters: denture, detinue, dreeing, dungier, energid, erudite, grunted, integer, intrude, reeding, reigned, retinue, retuned, reunite, tenured, treeing, trudgen, trueing, turdine, untired, untried, uterine.

-3 letters: dengue, denier, dieter, dinger, dunite, during, edgier, endite, endure, engird, engirt, entire, enured, gender, gerent, gerund, girned, girted, guider, gunite, gurnet, inured, nereid, neuter, nidget, nudger, reding, reedit, regent, reined, rented, retied, retine, retune, rident, ringed, ruined, teeing, tender, tenure, tiered, tinder, tinged, triene, trined, triune, trudge, truing, tureen, turgid, turned, ungird, ungirt, united, uniter, untied, ureide, urgent.

-4 letters: deign, deter, diene, diner, dinge, dirge, edger, egret, eider, ender, endue, enter, enure, etude, genet, genie, genre, greed, green, greet, gride, grind, grunt, guide, indue, inert, inter, inure, niter, nitre, nuder, nudge, nudie, reign, renig, rente, retie, ridge, ruing, rutin, teind, tenge, terne, tiger, tined, tinge, tired, treed, treen, trend, tried, trine, trued, tuned, tuner, undee, under, unite, unrig, untie, urged, urine, uteri.

-5 letters: deer, deet, dene, deni, dent, dere, diet, dine, ding, dint, dire, dirt, dite, dree, dreg, drug, duet, duit, dune, dung, dunt, dure, durn, edge, edit, eger, eide, erne, etui, geed, gene, gent, genu, gied, gien, gird, girn, girt, gree, grid, grin, grit, grue, gude, guid, ired, need, nerd, nide, nite, nude, nurd, rede, reed, rein, rend, rent, rete, ride, rind, ring, rite, rude, rued, ruin, rune, rung, runt, teed, teen, tend, tern, tide, tied, tier, tine, ting, tire, tree, trig, true, trug, tune, tung, turd, turn, unde, unit, urge.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-r-t-u"
 

+1 letter: negritudes.

 

+2 letters: centrifuged, delustering, deuterating, outbreeding, reeducating, undereating, underweight.

 

+3 letters: deregulating, deregulation, outbreedings, turgidnesses, underletting, underweights, ungentrified, ungerminated, unintegrated, unpretending, unregistered.

 

+4 letters: countersigned, deregulations, deuteragonist, disfigurement, hundredweight, outdelivering, overeducating, overindulgent, recentrifuged, underreacting, understeering.

 

+5 letters: butterfingered, deuteragonists, discouragement, disfigurements, disgruntlement, droughtinesses, headquartering, hundredweights, superintending, underreporting, unrefrigerated.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Negritude


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 67 72 69 74 75 64 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .    --.    .-.    ..    -    ..-    -..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01100111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01110101 01100100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#103 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#117 &#100 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0067 0072 0069 0074 0075 0064 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

487173847586877071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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