Usually means: Absence of any light reflection.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Black, black: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Black, black: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. black: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. black: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Black, black: Vocabulary.com
  6. Black, Black, black, black: Wordnik
  7. black: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Black, black: Wiktionary
  9. black: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. black: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. black: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Black: Dictionary.com
  13. black: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. black: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Black (Bangladeshi band), Black (Bengali film), Black (Colour), Black (Dierks Bentley album), Black (Dierks Bentley song), Black (English band), Black (Lee Hyori album), Black (Lita Ford album), Black (Malayalam film), Black (Pearl Jam song), Black (Project Pitchfork album), Black (Sevendust song), Black (Supernatural), Black (TV series), Black (U.S. Census), Black (automobile), Black (band), Black (code), Black (color), Black (colour), Black (disambiguation), Black (film), Black (game), Black (horse), Black (musician), Black (novel), Black (people), Black (race), Black (singer), Black (singer Black album), Black (song), Black (surname), Black (turkey), Black (video game), Black, The Black (American band), The Black (Asking Alexandria album), The Black (album), The Black (song), The Black, The black, .black: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Black: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. black: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. black: Rhymezone
  19. black: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. black: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Black: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. black: Free Dictionary
  23. black: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Black: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. (Miss) Black: Artist Search
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Black: Dictionary of Symbolism

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Black: Investopedia
  2. Black (Colour), Black (color), black: Legal dictionary
  3. Black (color), Black: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Black (Colour), Black (color), black: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Black (Colour), Black (color), black: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  4. BLACK: Acronym Finder
  5. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  6. black: Idioms
  7. black: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Black: Easton Bible

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. black, black, black: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Black: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. black, the black: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Black: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  3. Black: Canadian Soil Information System
  4. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See blacked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
adjective:  (of a location or setting) Without light.
adjective:  (sometimes capitalized) Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)
adjective:  (US, UK, South Africa) Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
adjective:  (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
adjective:  (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits.
adjective:  Bad; evil; ill-omened.
adjective:  Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
adjective:  (of objects or markets) Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
adjective:  Foul; dirty, soiled.
adjective:  (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
adjective:  (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
adjective:  (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).
adjective:  (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.
adjective:  (politics) Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
adjective:  (German politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
adjective:  Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
adjective:  Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
adjective:  (Ireland, now derogatory) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
adjective:  Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
adjective:  (taxonomy, especially) Dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.
adjective:  (Singapore, Singlish, of someone's face) Sullen and solemn; bad-tempered and unhappy.
noun:  (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
noun:  (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
noun:  (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
noun:  (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
noun:  (countable, sometimes capitalised, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.
noun:  (countable, billiards, snooker, pool) The black ball.
noun:  (countable, baseball) The edge of home plate.
noun:  (countable, British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
noun:  (chiefly UK) Blackcurrant as syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.
noun:  (countable, chess) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
noun:  (countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.
noun:  (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
noun:  A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
noun:  (US, slang) Marijuana.
verb:  (transitive) To make black; to blacken.
verb:  (transitive) To apply blacking to (something).
verb:  (British, transitive) To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A town in Geneva County, Alabama.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois.
noun:  A township in Posey County, Indiana; from the surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Reynolds County, Missouri.
noun:  A township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; from the surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mercer County and Wyoming County, West Virginia.
noun:  (countable, informal) Short for blackcurrant. [A shrub, Ribes nigrum, that produces small, very dark purple, edible berries.]
adjective:  (chiefly Canada, US, often UK) Alternative letter-case form of black (“of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin”). [(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of black (“person having dark pigmentation of the skin”). [(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.]

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