biracial
biracial adjective: of or pertaining to two races.
Adjective
biracial (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to two races.
- Some Americans would certainly see Ms. Harris — the first nominee of a major party who would be both a woman and biracial, with Jamaican and Indian heritage — as a transformational, inspiring figure.2024 July 24, Jeremy W. Peters, Audra D. S. Burch, Clyde McGrady, “Black Voters Feel Excited, and Worried, about a Kamala Harris Campaign”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Noun
biracial (plural biracials)
- A person belonging to two races.
- Black-white biracials who are Baptist may be more inclined than nonreligious black-white biracials to identify as singularly black because they perceive a stronger emotional racial attachment to African Americans.2018, Lauren Davenport, Politics Beyond Black and White, page 60
Forms of biracial
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | bi-racial |
| Noun | |
| plural | biracials |
Origin of biracial
From bi- + racial.
Words formed from biracial
Words that rhyme with biracial
- glacial
- facial
- unifacial
- bifacial
- equifacial
- microfacial
- palatial
- parafacial
- spatial
- subglacial
- abbatial
- acousticofacial
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- acrofacial
- basifacial
- brachyfacial
- buccofacial
- cardiofacial
- centrofacial
- cephalofacial
- cervicofacial
- cofacial
- craniofacial
- curatial
- cytofacial
- dentofacial
- distofacial
- dolichofacial
- enantiofacial
- endofacial
- englacial
- epifacial
- exofacial
- extrafacial
- gustofacial
- hemifacial
- interglacial
- intrafacial
- labiofacial
- linguofacial
- lithofacial
- mandibulofacial
- maxillofacial
- mesiofacial
- mesofacial
- midfacial
- minifacial
- multifacial
- multiracial
- musculofacial
- nasofacial
- nonfacial
- nonracial
- nonspatial
- oculofacial
- odontofacial
- orofacial
- oromaxillofacial
- orthofacial
- panfacial
- perifacial
Questions about biracial
- What does biracial mean?
- Biracial means of or pertaining to two races.
- What part of speech is biracial?
- Biracial can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near biracial in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: biracial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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