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Webster 1913 Edition

Negress

Ne′gress

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Negresses

.

[Cf. F.

négrese

, fem. of

négre

a negro. See

.]

A black woman; a female negro.

Webster 1828 Edition

Negress

NEGRESS

,

Noun.

[See Negro.] A female of the black race of Africa.

Definition 2024

Negress

Negress

See also: negress

English

Noun

Negress ‎(plural Negresses)

Alternative letter-case form of negress

negress

negress

See also: Negress

English

Noun

negress ‎(plural negresses)

(dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.

Translations

A black female

Arabic: زِنْجِيَّة f ‎(zinjiyya), زَنْجِيَّة f ‎(zanjiyya), سَوْدَاء f ‎(sawdāʾ)
Belarusian: негрыцянка f ‎(nehrycjánka)
Bulgarian: негърка f ‎(négǎrka)
Czech: černoška (cs) f
Dutch: negerin f, negervrouw f, zwarte (nl) f
Esperanto: negrino
French: négresse (fr) f, noire (fr) f
German: Negerin (de) f
Greek: νέγρη f ‎(négri), αραπίνα (el) f ‎(arapína)
Italian: nera (it) f
Lithuanian: negrė f

Macedonian: црнка f ‎(c'rnka)
Persian: دده‌سیاه ‎(dade-siyâh)
Polish: murzynka (pl) f
Portuguese: negra (pt) f
Romanian: negresă (ro) f
Russian: негритя́нка (ru) f ‎(negritjánka)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: црнкиња f

Roman: crnkinja (sh) f
Slovak: černoška (sk) f
Spanish: negra (es) f
Swedish: negress c
Ukrainian: муринка f ‎(múrynka), негритянка f ‎(nehrytjánka)

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