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mixed-race en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a person, having genetic characteristics of two or more different races.
    • It was the racist, settler colonialism that created whiteness, that created blackness, half-caste, quarter-caste, octoroon, that saw mixed-race people as a third race. 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:

Forms

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mixed race alternative lexicographic

Relateds

half-caste · mixed heritage

Synonyms

mixed-breed

Translations (17)

de gemischtrassig (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · pt mestiça (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · es mestizo (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · fi sekarotuinen (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · es mixto racialmente (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · pl mieszany (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · es de raza mixta (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · fr métissé (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · hu kevert rasszú (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · cy cymysgryw (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · hu félvér (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · fr métis (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · pt mestiço (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · hu mesztic (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · ru сме́шанной ра́сы (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · mk мелез (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races) · he בֶּן תַּעֲרֹבֶת (having genetic characteristics of two or more different races)