blackman
/blˈækmən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.89 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An unincorporated community in Rutherford County, Tennessee, United States.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Alternative form of black man.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "“Recognised and compensated,” will both these condition[s] be occupied by the blackman in the world forty years hence?"
- "Australia’s true history is never read, But the blackman keeps it in his head."
- "It is nearly a century since DuBois described the condition of the blackman thus […]"