blackman

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proper noun

A surname.

Less commonScrabble 18

Meanings

blackman1

nounblackman (plural blackmen)

plural blackmen

  1. alternativenonstandardAlternative form of black man.

    Australia’s true history is never read, But the blackman keeps it in his head.

    1971, Bill Day, aboriginal poem
    3 more examples

    On the summit of a hill they were seen by my fathers, my countrymen, on the top of the hill they were seen standing: they threw fire like a star,—it fell amongst the blackmen my countrymen.

    1859, Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, page 274

    “Recognised and compensated,” will both these condition[s] be occupied by the blackman in the world forty years hence?

    1912, The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, volume XI, Duke University Press, published 2011, page 44

    It is nearly a century since DuBois described the condition of the blackman thus […]

    1990, Wole Soyinka, The Blackman and the Veil, SEDCO, published 1993, page 3

Blackman2

proper nounBlackman (countable and uncountable, plural Blackmans)

plural Blackmans

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
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