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half-breeds

half-breeds is the plural of half-breed.

Meaning of half-breed

Noun

half-breed (plural half-breeds)

  1. (dated, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).
    • Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 307
  2. A hybrid animal or plant.

See all 5 meanings of half-breed

Noun capitalized: Half-Breeds

Half-Breeds

  1. (plural) plural of Half-Breed

Questions about half-breeds

What is half-breeds the plural of?
Half-breeds is the plural of half-breed.
What part of speech is half-breeds?
Half-breeds is a noun.

Words near half-breeds in the dictionary

  1. half-break
  2. half-breaks
  3. half-bred
  4. half-breds
  5. half-breed
  6. half-breeds
  7. half-brethren
  8. half-broken
  9. half-brother
  10. half-brothers
  11. half-built

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