Of or relating to the Moors; Moorish. Cf. Morisco, adj.

Also with capital initial. Of or relating to black people, their history, politics, culture, etc. Of an area or place: predominantly inhabited or…

Of, belonging to, connected with, or characteristic of a black person; spec. (a) designating hard-wearing, durable clothes and fabrics…

Characteristic or suggestive of a black person; spec. characteristic of black slaves in the United States of America. In later use also: = Negroid…

Relating to, characteristic of, resembling, or suggestive of a black person or black people.

As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or belonging to a black or dark-skinned person or people’.

U.S. slang. (offensive and derogatory). Designating a black person; of, relating to, frequented by, or associated with black people. Cf. sense A. 3…

= niggerish, adj.

= Negroid, adj.

= Negroid, adj. Also (occasionally) more generally: black. (In quot. 1950 perhaps: = Negrito, adj.)

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the black African people of central Africa. Also more generally: black African.

Designating or belonging to a dark-skinned people; melanodermic.

attributive with the sense ‘having or characterized by soul (sense 3c); of, relating to, or characteristic of soul music’, as soul record, soul singer…

Originally U.S. Of or relating to African heritage; black.