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South African playwright (1880–1931)
Stephen William Black (1880, Claremont, Cape – 1931) was a South African playwright, who has been called "South Africa's first professional dramatist"
Stephen_Black_(playwright)
Topics referred to by the same term
Steven Black (gridiron football) (born 1986), American footballer Stephen Black (playwright) (1880–1931), South African playwright Don Black (white supremacist)
Steven_Black
English playwright and director
Stephen Lowe (born December 1947) is an English playwright and director. Lowe's plays have dealt with subjects ranging from the takeover of Tibet by the
Stephen_Lowe_(playwright)
British dramatist and actor (1947–2004)
Nigel Stephen Mallatratt (15 June 1947 – 22 November 2004) was an English playwright, television screenwriter and actor. He is best known for his television
Stephen_Mallatratt
British screenwriter & playwright (born 1967)
Stephen Thompson (born 1967) is a British playwright and screenwriter. Thompson studied at the University of Warwick. He gained a maths degree but also
Steve_Thompson_(writer)
British playwright and director
Stephen Poliakoff (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of The Independent described him as
Stephen_Poliakoff
American dramatist (born 1965)
Stephen Adly Guirgis (born 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member and a former co-artistic director of New
Stephen_Adly_Guirgis
American playwright and screenwriter
Stephen Karam (born c. 1980) is an American playwright, screenwriter and director. His plays Sons of the Prophet, a comedy-drama about a Lebanese-American
Stephen_Karam
American actor (1976–2020)
(/ˈboʊzmən/; November 29, 1976 – August 28, 2020) was an American actor and playwright. Through his two-decade career, he appeared in a number of projects spanning
Chadwick_Boseman
American comedian, writer and television host (born 1964)
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (/koʊlˈbɛər/ kohl-BAIR; born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television
Stephen_Colbert
American actor (born 1951)
Stephen Root (born November 17, 1951) is an American actor. Known for his extensive character actor roles in film and television, he gained attention
Stephen_Root
Irish actor (born 1946)
Stephen Rea (/ˈreɪ/ ray; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish actor. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his career as a member of Dublin's Focus
Stephen_Rea
Northern Irish-born playwright and actor
David Ireland (born 1976 or 1977) is a Northern Irish-born playwright and actor, known for his award-winning plays Cyprus Avenue and Ulster American. David
David_Ireland_(playwright)
Zimbabwean-American actress (born 1978)
ɡʊˈrɪərə/; born February 14, 1978) is a Zimbabwean-American actress, playwright, screenwriter, producer, and activist. She is best known for her starring
Danai_Gurira
Canadian playwright, director and actor (born 1952)
Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta, and grew up in Edmonton,
Morris_Panych
Indigenous Australian film director
and was a co-founder of the Australian National Playwrights Conference, the National Black Playwrights Conference, and the Aboriginal National Theatre
Brian_Syron
English comedian and actor (born 1957)
Sir Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and broadcaster. He began his career on the sketch comedy series Alfresco
Stephen_Fry
Topics referred to by the same term
Stephen Hunter Black Light, a 2010 science-fiction novel by Indian writer Rimi B. Chatterjee Black Light, a play by Australian playwright and actor Jada
Black_Light_(disambiguation)
American actor (born 1951)
Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American character actor and writer. He is known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson
Stephen_Tobolowsky
Colman Domingo is an American actor, playwright, and director. Domingo rose to prominence for his role on the sketch series The Big Gay Sketch Show from
Colman Domingo on screen and stage
Colman_Domingo_on_screen_and_stage
American actress, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter (1939–2013)
a cult horror icon. Black continued to star in low-profile films throughout the early 2010s, as well as working as a playwright before her death from
Karen_Black
American playwright and actor (1943–2017)
"the greatest American playwright of his generation." Shepard's plays are known for their bleak, poetic, surrealist elements, black comedy, and rootless
Sam_Shepard
Style of drama
Sierz hosted a debate on New Writing, which featured the playwrights Mark Ravenhill, Simon Stephens and Richard Bean as panellists. An audience member asked
In-yer-face_theatre
Puerto Rican actress
2013. At the end of her final year at Columbia, she was mentored by playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis over the course of the production of her thesis play
Paola_Lázaro
American novelist (born 1947)
Stephen Reeder Donaldson (born May 13, 1947) is an American fantasy, science fiction and mystery novelist, most famous for The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
Stephen_R._Donaldson
American actor, director and playwright
Lloyd Stanton (born March 8, 1963) is an American actor, director, and playwright. His credits include The House on Carroll Street (1988), A League of Their
Robert_Stanton_(actor)
American actor (born 1952)
Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American stage and screen actor. He gained fame for his role as Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron's Avatar
Stephen_Lang
Australian actor and playwright
Toby Schmitz (born 4 May 1977) is an Australian actor, playwright, director and novelist. Schmitz was born in Perth, Western Australia, where he was raised
Toby_Schmitz
American actress, television producer, screenwriter, author and playwright
is an American actress, television producer, screenwriter, author and playwright. She played Valerie Grant in the series Days of Our Lives from 1975 until
Tina_Andrews
rhythm and blues singer Trey Anthony, playwright (Da Kink in My Hair) Aphrose, soul/R&B singer Océane Aqua-Black, drag entertainer Aqyila, rhythm and blues
List_of_Black_Canadians
American composer and lyricist (1930–2021)
Young Playwrights Inc. in 1981 to introduce young people to writing for the theater, and was the organization's executive vice-president. The Stephen Sondheim
Stephen_Sondheim
Ten-play play cycle written by August Wilson
struggling poet and playwright who lived in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He submitted versions of Jitney and the non-cycle play Black Bart and the Sacred Hills
The_Pittsburgh_Cycle
American comedian and actor (born 1948)
Black's career began in theater as a playwright; however, he has stated that he was always doing stand-up "on the side." He served as the playwright-in-residence
Lewis_Black
This is a list of Black creatives who have been nominated for a Tony Award for outstanding achievement in Broadway theatre. While some American people
African-American Tony nominees and winners
African-American_Tony_nominees_and_winners
Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic (born 1960)
George Elliott Clarke OC ONS (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012
George_Elliott_Clarke
Australian playwright and screenwriter
Stephen John Sewell (born 1953) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for his play and later (1998) screenplay of The Boys. Stephen
Stephen_Sewell_(writer)
cause of death (if known), and a reference. Sonia Antinori, 63, Italian playwright. Alla Chernova, 82, Russian actress (Don't Forget... Lugovaya Station
Deaths_in_2026
American playwright
Sarah DeLappe is an American playwright. Her play The Wolves premiered Off-Broadway in 2016 to acclaim. It received the American Playwriting Foundation's
Sarah_DeLappe
Playwright list
This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth; Lists of authors. Contents: A
List_of_playwrights
American playwright (1911–1983)
American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century
Tennessee_Williams
American stage director and playwright (born 1959)
Stephen Sachs (born August 14, 1959) is an American stage director, playwright, producer, and screenwriter. He co-founded the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles
Stephen_Sachs
playwright Stephen Page – film director, choreographer Dan Bourchier Miriam Corowa Jeremy Geia Freda Glynn Karla Grant – NITV anchor of Living Black Stan
List of Indigenous Australian writers
List_of_Indigenous_Australian_writers
Scottish playwright
as C.P. Taylor, was a Scottish playwright. He wrote almost 80 plays during his 16 years as a professional playwright, including several for radio and
C._P._Taylor
American translator, playwright (1934–1999)
(January 29, 1934 – February 19, 1999) was an American translator, poet, playwright, and essayist. He graduated from Nashua High School in 1951, Colgate University
Paul_Schmidt_(translator)
American playwright and theatrical producer (1790–1884)
(c. 1790–1884), was an American playwright and theatrical producer. He is considered the first known black playwright in America. Willian A. Brown was
William_Alexander_Brown
Socialist playwright and drama theorist
John Peter McGrath (1 June 1935 – 22 January 2002) was a British playwright and theatre theorist who took up the cause of Socialism in his plays. From
John_McGrath_(playwright)
British playwright and writer (born 1948)
David Edgar (born 26 February 1948) is a British playwright and writer who has had more than sixty of his plays published and performed on stage, radio
David_Edgar_(playwright)
1982 play by August Wilson
of Black recording artists by white producers; it is part of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle (also referred to as The Century Cycle) by the playwright, chronicling
Ma_Rainey's_Black_Bottom
English actor (born 1962)
Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 17 June 2020. "Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis: 'I don't feel like I fit in anywhere – I'm a guest in
Eamonn_Walker
American playwright and screenwriter
Steven Levenson (born May 1984) is an American playwright and screenwriter. He won the 2017 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Dear Evan Hansen
Steven_Levenson
English osteopath (1912–1963)
Stephen Thomas Ward (19 October 1912 – 3 August 1963) was an English osteopath and artist who was one of the central figures in the 1963 Profumo affair
Stephen_Ward
19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an American playwright and civil rights activist. She was the first Black American female author to have a play performed
Lorraine_Hansberry
American dramatist
Garland Anderson (February 18, 1886 – June 1, 1939) was an American playwright and speaker, known for his contributions to African-American literature
Garland_Anderson_(playwright)
American actor (born 1956)
Stephen Spinella (born October 11, 1956) is an American actor. He originated the role of Prior Walter in the original Broadway production of Angels in
Stephen_Spinella
British actor, playwright and filmmaker
Jones is a British actor, playwright and filmmaker. Born and bred in The Black Country, Alex became an actor and playwright after various jobs in the
Alex_Jones_(playwright)
Racial and multi-ethnic group
also known as French Black people or Black French people (Afro-Français) are French people who have ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa
Black_French_people
English playwright and poet (1564–1616)
William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English
William_Shakespeare
Figure in the mythology of the Nation of Islam
naturally to racial separatism". The American author and playwright Amiri Baraka's play A Black Mass (1965) takes inspiration from the story of Yakub. In
Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)
Non-profit theatre organization in Seattle
Beattie, December 2015. In 2018, Yussef El Guindi became a Core Company playwright member. In 2025, ACT Theatre signed a merger agreement with Seattle Shakespeare
ACT_Theatre
British playwright and screenwriter (1938–2016)
Black playwright to emerge from his generation, and as having given "Caribbeans a real voice in Britain". He was the first black British playwright commissioned
Michael_Abbensetts
South Transept of Westminster Abbey
transept of Westminster Abbey in London, England, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated. The first poet interred in Poets'
Poets'_Corner
British people of sub-Saharan African descent
17. Scobie, Edward (1972), Black Britannia, Chicago, Illinois: Johnson Publishing Company Inc. Bourne, Stephen (2020). Black Poppies (source on back cover
Black_British_people
New Zealand actress (born 1972)
series Black Sails, which also starred her husband Toby Stephens. Plowman married actor Toby Stephens, son of actors Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, in
Anna-Louise_Plowman
Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most acclaimed works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company
Works_of_Stephen_Sondheim
British actor (1944–2022)
Stephen John Greif (/ɡraɪf/; 26 August 1944 – 23 December 2022) was an English actor known for his roles as Travis in Blake's 7, Harry Fenning in three
Stephen_Greif
British comedian (born 1955)
he grew a beard, and worked with the National Youth Theatre. He won a playwright award from the Royal Court Theatre. The head of the school drama group
Stephen_Frost
American playwright
Leslie Lee (1930 – January 20, 2014) was an American playwright, director and professor of playwriting and screenwriting. Leslie Lee grew up in West Conshohocken
Leslie_Lee_(playwright)
American actor (born 1980)
known professionally as William Jackson Harper, is an American actor and playwright. He gained acclaim for his role as Chidi Anagonye in the NBC comedy series
William_Jackson_Harper
British playwright (born 1954)
CBE (born 5 December 1954) is a British playwright, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the screenplay for Stephen Frears's My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)
Hanif_Kureishi
American filmmaker (born 1946)
Hanks produced Band of Brothers (2001), a ten-part HBO miniseries based on Stephen E. Ambrose's book of the same name. It follows Easy Company of the 101st
Steven_Spielberg
American actress
and a Half Men.[citation needed] She made her directorial debut with playwright Jeffrey Sweet's play Kunstler at the 59 East 59 Theaters in Manhattan
Meagen_Fay
Theatrical makeup caricaturing Black people
successful and prominent minstrel show performers, composers and playwrights were themselves Black, such as: Bert Williams, Bob Cole, and J. Rosamond Johnson
Blackface
American writer
Program. Friedlich also was accepted into the Young Playwrights program that was founded by Stephen Sondheim in 1981. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University
Max_Wolf_Friedlich
English actor (born 1937)
(born Leslie Steven Berks; 3 August 1937) is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. As a theatre maker he is recognised
Steven_Berkoff
British naval officer, writer, and politician (1893–1966)
Stephen Richard King-Hall, Baron King-Hall of Headley (21 January 1893 – 2 June 1966) was a British naval officer, writer, politician and playwright who
Stephen_King-Hall
Off-Broadway theater in Manhattan, New York
Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit American Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary
Playwrights_Horizons
British TV anthology series (1958–1959)
Television Playwright is a British television anthology series which aired from 1958 to 1959 on the BBC. Of the 29 episodes, only three are known to survive
Television_Playwright
English dramatist and journalist born c. 1851–1903
collaborated with the composer Florian Pascal on a comic opera, The Black Squire. Stephens had further successes with The Vicar of Wide-awake-field and Little
Henry_Pottinger_Stephens
Ojibwe-African American fur trader and interpreter
Spelling varied widely at this time. Playwright Carlyle Brown created a play based on Bonga's life titled George Bonga: Black Voyageur which opened in February
George_Bonga
American actor, author and playwright (born 1939)
November 21, 1939, Springfield, Illinois) is an American actor, author and playwright. Lenz is known for his performances in the films Cactus Flower (1969)
Rick_Lenz
original on March 7, 2023. Retrieved February 26, 2023. "Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Continues Evening Reading Series With Yosemite 5/18". BroadwayWorld
Pedro Pascal on screen and stage
Pedro_Pascal_on_screen_and_stage
American soldier and politician (1826–1886)
to Cornelius Ambrosius Logan (1806–1853), the Irish-American actor and playwright, possibly as a first cousin. John Logan adopted Cornelius' daughter Kate
John_A._Logan
African-American actress and playwright (born 1950)
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950) is an American actress, playwright, and professor. She is known for her roles as National Security Advisor
Anna_Deavere_Smith
Ancient Spartan staple soup
Athenians. Classics scholar David Harvey stated that the playwright was likely making fun of Spartan black broth in this passage. Suda Lexicon, a Byzantine Greek
Black_soup
British actor
his film work, in particular for his performance as Prince Charles in Stephen Frears's film The Queen (2006) opposite Helen Mirren. His other film appearances
Alex_Jennings
Wife of William Shakespeare (1556–1623)
father's will), was the wife of William Shakespeare, the English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in 1582, when Hathaway was pregnant at 26
Anne Hathaway (wife of Shakespeare)
Anne_Hathaway_(wife_of_Shakespeare)
British actor (born 1990)
(2020–2022), the science fiction series The Lazarus Project (2020–2023), and Black Mirror: Demon 79 (2023). Essiedu made his feature film acting debut as a
Paapa_Essiedu
Australian writer
Clive Barry (2 September 1922 – 25 August 2003) was an Australian author, playwright, cartoonist and escaped prisoner of war. His offbeat, vividly stylised
Clive_Barry
Actor and playwright
Hillingdon, London) is a British actor, playwright, director and broadcaster. In 2005, Kwei-Armah became the second black Briton to have a play staged in London's
Kwame_Kwei-Armah
Northern Irish actor (1931–1977)
William Millar (4 July 1931 – 2 June 1977), better known by his stage name Stephen Boyd, was an actor from Northern Ireland. He emerged as a leading man during
Stephen_Boyd
Novelist, playwright, essayist
2017) was an American-Irish author, short story writer, novelist, and playwright. Known for the dark humor in his writings, he first achieved critical
J._P._Donleavy
British film director and producer (born 1941)
Sir Stephen Arthur Frears (born 20 June 1941) is a British director and producer of film and television, often depicting real-life stories as well as
Stephen_Frears
American political endorsements
Black Hollywood And Friends Fundraiser For Kamala Harris". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved October 3, 2024. Garner, Glenn (October 10, 2024). "Stephen King
List of Kamala Harris 2024 presidential campaign non-political endorsements
List_of_Kamala_Harris_2024_presidential_campaign_non-political_endorsements
American film editor
- Comedy or Musical - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl "Stephen Rivkin Editor". independentartistgroup.com. Independent Artist Group
Stephen_E._Rivkin
20th-century Aboriginal Australian writer
April 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian author, activist, artist, poet, playwright and printmaker. A Wiradjuri man, Gilbert was born on the banks of the
Kevin_Gilbert_(author)
South African anti-apartheid movement, 1960s
pp. 29–47. "Stephen Bantu Biko Writings, Documents, Articles and Papers", SAHO. Accessed 12 January 2018. Njabulo Ndebele, Steve Biko. Black Viewpoint.Spros-Cas
Black_Consciousness_Movement
January 2013. Chitwood, Adam (5 December 2018). "The Men in Black Reboot Is Titled Men in Black International". Collider. Retrieved 5 December 2018. "Emma
Emma Thompson on screen and stage
Emma_Thompson_on_screen_and_stage
English playwright and author (1933–1967)
Kingsley "Joe" Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his murder in
Joe_Orton
American author (born 1938)
and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short
Joyce_Carol_Oates
American actor
2026. Retrieved May 21, 2026. ‘Griffin in Summer’ Review: A Teenage Playwright Crushes Hard on the Handyman in This Low-Key Charmer Tribeca Festival
Owen_Teague
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
Male
Russian
(Степан) Russian form of Greek Stephanos, STEPAN means "crown." Compare with another form of Stepan.
Male
Scottish
Scottish Gaelic form of French Stéphane, STEAPHAN means "crown."
Male
English
Anglicized form of Greek Stephanos (Latin Stephanus), STEPHEN means "crown." In the bible, this is the name of one of the seven deacons of the church at Jerusalem who was stoned to death by the Jews.Â
Surname or Lastname
Scottish and English
Scottish and English : from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man.Scottish and English : from Old English blÄc ‘pale’, ‘fair’, i.e. precisely the opposite meaning to 1, and a variant of Blake 2. Blake and Black are found more or less interchangeably in several surnames and place names.English : variant of Blanc as a Norman name. The pronunciation of the nasalized vowel gave considerable difficulty to English speakers, and its quality was often ignored.Scottish and Irish : translation of various names from Gaelic dubh ‘black’ (see Duff).Danish and Swedish : generally, probably the English and Scottish name, but in some cases perhaps a variant spelling of Blak, a nickname from blak ‘black’.In some cases, a translation of various names meaning ‘black’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz.
Boy/Male
Australian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Swedish, Welsh
Crowned; Garland; Wreath; Similar to Stephen
Boy/Male
Australian, Gaelic
Crown; Wreath; Similar to Stephen
Female
English
Feminine form of English Stephen, STEPHENIE means "crown."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from the personal name Stephen (see Steven).
Biblical
same as Stephanas
Boy/Male
English American Greek
Crown; wreath. From biblical Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Female
English
Modern variant spelling of English Stephanie, STEPHANY means "crown."
Boy/Male
English
Dark.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant spelling of Stephens.Reduced form of German Stephanhans, from a compound of the personal names Stephan (see Steven) + Hans.
Male
English
Popular spelling of English Stephen, STEVEN means "crown."
Female
English
Modern variant spelling of English Stephanie, STEPHANI means "crown."
Male
German
Low German form of Latin Stephanus, STEFFEN means "crown."
Male
English
Unisex short form of English Stephen and Stephanie, both STEPH means "crown."
Male
German
German form of Latin Stephanus, STEPHAN means "crown."
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Dark; Dark Skinned
Boy/Male
Shakespearean American Greek English Biblical
King Richard The Second' Sir Stephen Scroop.
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Fortunate; Facilitated
Girl/Female
Tamil
Horse
Boy/Male
Greek
From the glen.
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Telugu
Independent
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Claiborne.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Beauty
Boy/Male
Arabic, Celebrity, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Iranian, Kannada, Marathi, Muslim, Punjabi, Sikh, Tamil
Wish; Longing; Soldier; Famous Bearer; Desire; Intelligent; Fulfil of Dream
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Slave of the High
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi
Three Eyed; Durga
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim, Pashtun, Sindhi
Representative; Agent; He who Looks over the Sinful Ummah
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
STEPHEN BLACK-PLAYWRIGHT
n. pl.
Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
p. p.
Stepped; gone; advanced.
a.
In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
a.
To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
n.
A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
a.
Having black eyes.
n.
The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
a.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
n.
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
a.
As black as coal; jet black; very black.
n.
One who, or that which, steps; as, a quick stepper.
a.
Black as pitch or tar.
n.
A black pigment or dye.
a.
Provided with a step or steps; having a series of offsets or parts resembling the steps of stairs; as, a stepped key.
a.
Black as jet; deep black.
a.
Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
n.
A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
a.
Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
n.
A large sting ray of the genus Trygon, especially T. sephen of the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea. The skin is an article of commerce.