Black

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Contents

  1. How do you pronounce Black?
  2. What does Black mean?
  3. What ethnicity is the name Black?
  4. What are similar names to Black?
  5. What words does Black rhyme with?

How to pronouce, type, and say Black

See how to say, spell, type, and pronounce Black.

How to pronouce Black

Black ARPAbet pronounciation: B L AE1 K

Black IPA pronounciation: blæk

How to spell and type Black

Black in readable ASCII: black

Black in hex: black

What does Black rhyme with?

English words that rhyme with Black.

The name Black rhymes with:

aback ack adak akc attack
back backe bak bakke balzac
beaulac brac brack brakke braque
cac caq chirac clack crack
dac dack dak dulac fac
flack flak hack hacke haq
haque jac jack jacques knack
knick-knack krack kracke kwak lac
lack lak mac mack macke
mak nack nacke oblak pac
pack pak paque plack placke
plaque post-attack ptak quack rack
rak repack sac sack sak
schack schlack schnack schrack shack
shaq shellack slack smack snack
spack spak stac stack strack
stracke tabak tac tack tacke
tak trac track trak unpack
vanvlack wack whack whack wrack
yack yak zach zack zak

What does the name Black mean?

Literal translations for the name Black.

What does Black mean in English?

black adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: {white}] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: {white}] 3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: {black}, {bleak}, {dim}] 5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: {black}, {dark}, {sinister}] 6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: {black}, {calamitous}, {disastrous}, {fatal}, {fateful}] 7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: {black}, {blackened}] 8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: {black}, {pitch-black}, {pitch-dark}] 9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: {black}, {grim}, {mordant}] 10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" 11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: {bootleg}, {black}, {black-market}, {contraband}, {smuggled}] 12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: {black}, {disgraceful}, {ignominious}, {inglorious}, {opprobrious}, {shameful}] 13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar 14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: {black}, {smutty}] n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: {black}, {blackness}, {inkiness}] [ant: {white}, {whiteness}] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: {total darkness}, {lightlessness}, {blackness}, {pitch blackness}, {black}] 3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: {Black}, {Joseph Black}] 4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: {Black}, {Shirley Temple Black}, {Shirley Temple}] 5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: {Black}, {Black person}, {blackamoor}, {Negro}, {Negroid}] 6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: {white}] 7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: {blacken}, {melanize}, {melanise}, {nigrify}, {black}] [ant: {white}, {whiten}]

What ethnicity is the name Black?

Global data on the ethnicity of the name Black.

What ethnicity is someone with the name Black likely to be?

  • Black has a 1.49% chance of being East Asian
  • Black has a 1.45% chance of being Japanese
  • Black has a 0.35% chance of being South Asian
  • Black has a 0.33% chance of being African
  • Black has a 0.16% chance of being Muslim
  • Black has a 61.25% chance of being British
  • Black has a 0.89% chance of being Eastern European
  • Black has a 27.84% chance of being Jewish
  • Black has a 1.96% chance of being French
  • Black has a 0.89% chance of being Germanic
  • Black has a 1.85% chance of being Hispanic
  • Black has a 1.22% chance of being Italian
  • Black has a 0.34% chance of being Nordic

What names are similar to the name Black?

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