Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun uncle_tom

2 senses of uncle tom

Sense 1
Tom, Uncle Tom -- ((ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites)
       => Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid -- (a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa))

Sense 2
Uncle Tom -- (a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe)
       INSTANCE OF=> fictional character, fictitious character, character -- (an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story); "she is the main character in the novel")