Black & Veatch is 100% employee-owned, with more than 10,000 professionals personally invested in helping our clients and company achieve success. We take pride in building infrastructure that's sustainable and resilient, making all the difference in a world turned upside down by megatrends. At Black & Veatch, we're Building a World of Difference.® Show From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”)[1], Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)). More at bleach. Pronunciation[edit]Adjective[edit]black (comparative blacker or more black, superlative blackest or most black)
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Synonyms[edit]Antonyms[edit]Derived terms[edit](taxonomy: having dark features): (other senses): Descendants[edit]Translations[edit]black (countable and uncountable, plural blacks)
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Synonyms[edit]Antonyms[edit]Derived terms[edit]Descendants[edit]Translations[edit]black (third-person singular simple present blacks, present participle blacking, simple past and past participle blacked)
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Further reading[edit]Etymology[edit]Borrowed from English black. Pronunciation[edit]Adjective[edit]black (plural blacks) black m or f (plural blacks)
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