Definition of Black belt

1. Noun. A person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate).

Generic synonyms: Expert

2. Noun. A black sash worn to show expert standards in the martial arts (judo or karate).
Generic synonyms: Badge

Definition of Black belt

1. Noun. The highest belt colour in various martial arts. ¹

2. Noun. Someone who has attained a black belt ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Belt

black babies
black bag
black bags
black bamboo
black bead
black beans
black bear
black bearberry
black bears
black bee
black beech
black beetle
black beetles
black belt
black belts
black bile
black bindweed
black birch
black bloc
black bodies
black body
black book
black box
black box warning
black boxes
black bread
black bream
black brotus

Literary usage of Black belt

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1907)
"... vn OF THE black belt I am black but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, As the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, ..."

2. Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1907)
"Industrial Decay of the black belt CG Smith, Colonization of Negroes in Central ... He [the white in the black belt] certainly suffers as much, or more, ..."

3. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"... IN THE black belt. BY CHARLES BARTLETT DYKE, HONOLULU. THE negro's real menace to the South lies in the paucity of his earthly wants. ..."

4. Black America: A Study of the Ex-slave and His Late Master by William Laird Clowes (1891)
"CHAPTER I. THE black belt. THE total population of the United States, exclusive of Alaska and of the Indian Territory, was, according to the official ..."

5. Negro Migration During the War by Emmett Jay Scott (1920)
"CHAPTER VI The Draining of the black belt In order better to understand the migration movement, a special study of it was made for five adjoining States, ..."

6. Cumberland's British Theatre: With Remarks, Biographical & Critical. Printed by Thomas Dolby, George Damiel, D. G., G. D., John Cumberland (1827)
"INKLE—Nankeen trowsers and jacket, white waistcoat, light hat, white stockings, black belt and hanger. SIR CHRISTOPHER—Blue coat, embroidered button-holes, ..."

7. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"black belt, a term at first applied to central Alabama, but later to all the Gulf ... The special problem of the black belt is the predominance of negroes ..."

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