Meaning

1 senses
  1. (ethnic, offensive, slur)A black person.

    (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The Porta Nigra was used as a city gate first, then as a church.

    deDie Porta Nigra wurde zuerst als Stadttor, dann als Kirche genutzt.

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  2. There are many tourist attractions in Trier, such as the Porta Nigra, the Roman Bridge and the Basilica of Constantine.

    deIn Trier gibt es viele Sehenswürdigkeiten, wie die Porta Nigra, die Römerbrücke und die Konstantinbasilika.

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Origin

A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in

A collateral form of negro with colloquial reduction of unstressed /oʊ/, /əʊ/ to /ə/ as in fella.

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Forms

plural: nigras
Singularnigra
Pluralnigras

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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