Black Russian

adjective

Pertaining to Black Russia.

Meanings

adjectiveBlack Russian (comparative more Black Russian, superlative most Black Russian)

comparative more Black Russian · superlative most Black Russian

  1. Pertaining to Black Russia.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.
nounBlack Russian (plural Black Russians)

plural Black Russians

  1. A cocktail containing vodka and a coffee-flavoured liqueur such as Kahlúa.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see Black, Russian.

    I had met Yelena Khanga (Lily Golden's daughter) in Chicago when we were both on a panel about blacks and Russia in the early 1990s. Her book, Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family, 1865–1992, had just come out, and she was ...

    2008, Joy Gleason Carew, Blacks, Reds, and Russians: Sojourners in Search of the Soviet Promise, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN

Translations

Estonian must venelane
  • must venelanedrink
Finnish musta ryssä
  • musta ryssädrink
Polish Czarny Rosjanin
  • Czarny Rosjanindrink
Russian чёрный ру́сский
  • чёрный ру́сский (čórnyj rússkij)drink
Cite this entry
APA

Black Russian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Black%20Russian

MLA

“Black Russian.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Black%20Russian. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Black Russian,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Black%20Russian.

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