negro
n. countablen. a word for a Black person that was common in the past but is now seen as offensive. It is mostly found in history books or old literature.
n. a term historically used to denote a person of Black African descent. While once considered a standard or neutral descriptor, it is now widely regarded as offensive, dated, or derogatory in contemporary English.
The old history book used the word Negro to describe the explorers.
Many civil rights leaders in the mid-20th century used the term Negro in their speeches before it fell out of common usage.
Scholars studying the Jim Crow era must navigate primary sources where the term Negro appears as the standard sociological classification of the time.
Capitalized in historical contexts; now largely replaced by 'Black' or 'African American' in modern discourse.