blacks Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
    inkiness; black; blackness.
  2. noun total absence of light
    black; lightlessness; pitch blackness; blackness; total darkness.
    • they fumbled around in total darkness
    • in the black of night
  3. noun British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
    Black; Joseph Black.
  4. noun popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
    Shirley Temple; Shirley Temple Black; Black.
  5. noun a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
    Negroid; blackamoor; Black; Negro; Black person.
  6. noun (board games) the darker pieces
    black.
  7. noun black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
    black.
    • the widow wore black
  8. verb make or become black
    melanize; black; blacken; melanise; nigrify.
    • The smoke blackened the ceiling
    • The ceiling blackened

WordNet

Blacks noun plural
Definitions
  1. The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
  2. Soot flying in the air. Eng.
  3. Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

Webster 1913