The difference between Blackamoor and Negro


Blackamoor is also noun with the meaning: a person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern africa.

Negro is also adjective with the meaning: relating to the black ethnicity.

check bellow for the other definitions of Blackamoor and Negro

  1. Blackamoor as a noun (archaic, offensive):

    A person with dark skin, especially (but not necessarily) one from northern Africa

  2. Blackamoor as a noun:

    a blackamoor slave, a blackamoor servant; and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child

  3. Blackamoor as a noun (heraldry):

    a stylized Negro

    Examples:

    "Argent, three blackamoors' heads couped sable, capped or, fretty gules."

  1. Negro as an adjective (dated, now, offensive):

    Relating to the black ethnicity.

  2. Negro as an adjective (dated, now, offensive):

    Black or dark brown in color.

  1. Negro as a noun (dated):