half-caste
half-caste adjective: of mixed racial descent.
Adjective
half-caste (not comparable)
- Of mixed racial descent.
- 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
Noun
half-caste (plural half-castes)
- A person of mixed racial descent.
- AO Neville, the Protector of Aborigines in Western Australia until the 1930s, railed against the risk of the creation of a ‘third race’ of half-castes.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
half-caste meaning in Kannada
half-caste in Kannada
- ಬೆರಕೆ, ಮಿಶ್ರ, ಸಂಕರಜಾತಿ
Forms of half-caste
| plural | half-castes |
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Origin of half-caste
From half- + caste.
Questions about half-caste
- What does half-caste mean?
- Half-caste means of mixed racial descent.
- What is half-caste in Kannada?
- Half-caste in Kannada is ಬೆರಕೆ, ಮಿಶ್ರ, ಸಂಕರಜಾತಿ. See Half-caste meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is half-caste?
- Half-caste can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near half-caste in the dictionary
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