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Shortened from film noir, and from French noir. Doublet of negro.

noir (comparative more noir, superlative most noir)

  1. (film, television) Of or pertaining to film noir, or the atmosphere associated with that genre

    • 2008, Jerold J. Abrams, Elizabeth Cooke, “Detection and the Logic of Abduction in The X-Files”, in The Philosophy of TV Noir‎[1], →ISBN, page 182:

      As a neo-Sherlock Holmes, however, Mulder is also a very noir version of the classic detective (just as Scully is a very noir Watson).

noir (countable and uncountable, plural noirs)

  1. (film and television, uncountable) Film noir.
  2. (film and television, countable) A production in the style of film noir.

    • 2007 January 29, Wendell Jamieson, “Beyond a Shadow of a Doubt, Nights Are Noir in Fog City”, in New York Times‎[2]:

      Several noirs, including “Raw Deal,” have been set here.

  • Noir (for the noun with the sense "black person")

Inherited from Middle French noir, from Old French noir, neir, from Latin nigrum. Doublet of nègre.

noir (feminine noire, masculine plural noirs, feminine plural noires)

  1. black in colour
    Ce chat est noir. ― This cat is black.
  2. dark
    Il fait encore noir dehors. ― It is still dark outside.
  3. drunk; inebriated
    Il est noir. ― He is drunk.
  4. black, of black ethnicity
    Il est noir. ― He is black.

noir m (plural noirs, feminine noire)

  1. a black person
  2. a person whose hair is dark
  3. dark; darkness
    Je suis seul dans le noir. ― I'm alone in the dark.
  • Haitian Creole: nwa
  • Karipúna Creole French: nué, nég
Colors in French · couleurs(layout · text)
     blanc      gris      noir
             rouge; cramoisi, carmin              orange; brun, marron              jaune; crème
             lime              vert              menthe
             cyan, turquoise; bleu canard              azur, bleu ciel              bleu
             violet, lilas; indigo              magenta; pourpre              rose

From Old French noir, neir.

noir m (uncountable)

  1. black

noir m (feminine singular noire, masculine plural noirs, feminine plural noires)

  1. black
  • French: noir, Noir (for the noun with the sense "black person")

From Latin nigrum.

noir oblique singular, m (oblique plural noirs, nominative singular noirs, nominative plural noir)

  1. black (colour)

noir m (oblique and nominative feminine singular noire)

  1. black; having a black color