black

Forms

1.Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- The items around him were black in colour.
- Speaking of round sunglasses, these lightweight polarized ones and come in two shades of tortoiseshell as well as black and bronze.
2.Without light.
- I don't believe that black cats cause bad luck.
- I have a cat and a dog. The cat is black and the dog is white.
- She was dressed in black.
3.Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
- Somebody tell me, what can I do / Something is holding me back / Is it because I'm black?
- I believed that a huge injustice had been perpetrated for hundreds of years on every black man, woman, and child in the United States.
- I am a young, light-skinned black woman, and truer words were never written of the problem we light-skinned blacks have had to live with. The article explains in-depth what it's like.
4.Of the spades or clubs suits.
- I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.

1.The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
- Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
- CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This four component color system is standard for most types of color printing, since black is an ink color in printing but is simply the absence of color in video.
2.A black dye or pigment.
3.A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
4.Black cloth hung up at funerals.
- Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.

Very common· #340

Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *blakaz

Proto-West Germanic *blak

Old English blæc

Middle English blak

English black