CommonParlance
Seed
Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
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Black Vernacular in CommonParlance
- definition a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
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Black Vernacular English in CommonParlance
- definition a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
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Black and Tan in CommonParlance
- definition an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921
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Black man in CommonParlance
- definition a man who is Black
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Black person in CommonParlance
- definition a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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Black race in CommonParlance
- definition a dark-skinned race
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Black woman in CommonParlance
- definition a woman who is Black
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Blackburn in CommonParlance
- definition black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat
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Blackburnian warbler in CommonParlance
- definition black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat
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Blackfoot in CommonParlance
- definition a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains
- definition any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot
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Blackfoot language in CommonParlance
- definition any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot
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Blackfriar in CommonParlance
- definition a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order
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Blackshirt in CommonParlance
- definition a member of the Italian fascist party before World War II
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Blackwall hitch in CommonParlance
- definition a simple hitch used for temporarily attaching a line to a hook
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Blaia Zimondal in CommonParlance
- definition an artificial language proposed by Cesare Meriggi in 1884
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Blarina brevicauda in CommonParlance
- definition North American shrew with tail less than half its body length
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Blatta orientalis in CommonParlance
- definition dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution
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Blattella germanica in CommonParlance
- definition small light-brown cockroach brought to United States from Europe; a common household pest
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Blechnum spicant in CommonParlance
- definition fern with erect fronds of Europe and western North America; often cultivated for deer browse
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Blenheim spaniel in CommonParlance
- definition red-and-white variety of English toy spaniel
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Blennius pholis in CommonParlance
- definition European scaleless blenny
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Blephilia ciliata in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of wood mint with pink-purple flowers stacked to resemble a pagoda (Blephilia celiata)
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Blephilia hirsuta in CommonParlance
- definition a variety of wood mint with flowers light blue, pale purple or white with purple spots (Blephilia hirsuta)
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Blessed in CommonParlance
- definition worthy of worship
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Bletia striata in CommonParlance
- definition Japanese orchid with white-striped leaves and slender erect racemes of rose to magenta flowers; often cultivated; sometimes placed in genus Bletia