blacks

Noun

• the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
• total absence of light
• British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
• popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
• a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
• (board games) the darker pieces
• black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
• plural of black
• A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
• Black garments, etc.

Verb

• make or become black
• third-person singular simple present indicative of black

Synonyms

Black, black, Black person, blackamoor, blacken, blackness, inkiness, Joseph Black, lightlessness, melanise, melanize, Negro, Negroid, nigrify, pitch blackness, Shirley Temple, Shirley Temple Black, total darkness

Antonyms

white, whiten