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mixed-race

mixed-race adjective: of a person, having genetic characteristics of two or more different races.

Adjective

mixed-race (not comparable)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    mixed-breed

Synonyms of mixed-race

Forms of mixed-race

alternative formmixed race

Questions about mixed-race

What does mixed-race mean?
Mixed-race means of a person, having genetic characteristics of two or more different races.
What part of speech is mixed-race?
Mixed-race is an adjective.

Words near mixed-race in the dictionary

  1. mixed-case
  2. mixed-interval chord
  3. mixed-interval chords
  4. mixed-member proportional
  5. mixed-methods research
  6. mixed-race
  7. mixed-sex
  8. mixed-traffic
  9. mixed-up
  10. mixed-use
  11. mixeder

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