UNCLE TOM as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
   Hypernyms(s) Uncle Tom is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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2. Meaning
   • contemptuous name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
   Synonym(s)
   • Tom (what does Tom mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Uncle Tom is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • Black (what does Black mean?)
   • Black person (what does Black person mean?)
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   • Negro (what does Negro mean?)
   • Negroid (what does Negroid mean?)