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Compare white.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance."},{"definition":"Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects."},{"definition":"Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Foul; dirty.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["dark","swart","dark","gloomy","pitch-black"],"antonyms":["nonblack","unblack","white","bright","illuminated","lit"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/black"]}]