blackamoor vs colored

colored vs blackamoor

blackamoor and colored both are nouns.

blackamoor is not an adjective while colored is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
blackamoor	Yes	No	No	No
colored	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, colored is a hyponym of blackamoor; that is, colored is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than blackamoor:

blackamoor: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
colored: a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

Other hyponyms of blackamoor include picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny, Negress, jigaboo, nigga, nigger, nigra, Tom, Uncle Tom, Black man, Black woman, darkey, darkie, darky, colored person, coloured, coloured person.

blackamoor (noun)	colored (noun)
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)	a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive

blackamoor (adjective)	colored (adjective)
	having color or a certain color; sometimes used in combination
	(used of color) artificially produced; not natural
	having skin rich in melanin pigments;
	favoring one person or side over another

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