Black Definition
- shirley-temple
- shirley temple (black)
- sackcloth
- corbeau
- sloe
- tar-black
- sloe-black
- night-dark
- night-black
- melano-
- cypress
- yew
- raven-black
- pitch blackness
- lightlessness
(colour, dye, pen): white.
- to cover (writing, printing, etc.) with black pencil marks or paint
- to cause a blackout in
- operating at a profit
- into a profitable condition financially
Other Word Forms of Black
Noun
Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Black
- black out
- in the black
- into the black
Origin of Black
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From Middle English black, blak, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Old High German blah (“black”), Old Norse blakra (“to blink”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlox, “flame”), Albanian blozë (“soot”), Sanskrit bharga 'radiance' [script?]). More at bleach.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English blak from Old English blæc bhel-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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