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multi-racial

multi-racial is the alternative form of multiracial.

Meaning of multiracial

Adjective

multiracial (comparative more multiracial, superlative most multiracial)

  1. Composed of, or having a mixture of, multiple races.
    • Coined by Taiye Selasi (2005) and Achille Mbembe (2007), the term refers to an Afrocosmopolitan ethos of transcending national differences to forge multiracial communities. Fostered by recent histories of migration and globalization as[…]2018 July 27, Gerard Delanty, Routledge International Handbook of Cosmopolitanism Studies: 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN

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Forms of multi-racial

comparativemore multi-racial
superlativemost multi-racial

Questions about multi-racial

What is multi-racial the alternative form of?
Multi-racial is the alternative form of multiracial.

Words near multi-racial in the dictionary

  1. multi-player
  2. multi-ply
  3. multi-pronged
  4. multi-purpose
  5. multi-qubit
  6. multi-racial
  7. multi-reference
  8. multi-resistant
  9. multi-second
  10. multi-shipper
  11. multi-skilled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: multi-racial (page history and authors); multiracial (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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