Usually means: Outdated term for black woman.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word negress:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. negress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Negress, Negress: Merriam-Webster
  3. Negress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Negress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Negress: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Negress: Vocabulary.com
  7. Negress, negress: Wordnik
  8. Negress, negress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Negress, negress: Wiktionary
  10. Negress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Negress: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Negress, negress: Dictionary.com
  13. Negress, The Negress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Negress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. negress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Negress: Rhymezone
  17. Negress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. negress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. negress: FreeDictionary.org
  20. negress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Negress: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Negress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Negress (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. negress: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. negress: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of negress [(dated, literary, now offensive and an ethnic slur) A black female.]

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