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quateron

quateron is the obsolete form of quadroon.

Meaning of quadroon

Noun

quadroon (plural quadroons)

  1. (dated, historical) A person considered three-fourths white, having one non-white grandparent.
    • There were slow boys and bashful boys, feeble boys and riotous boys, boys that lisped and boys that stuttered, one or two lame ones, and a merry little quadroon, who could not be taken in elsewhere, but who was welcome to the ‘Bhaer-garten’, though some people predicted that his admission would...1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 47, in Little Women: […], 2nd part, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC

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Forms of quateron

pluralquaterons

Questions about quateron

What is quateron the obsolete form of?
Quateron is the obsolete form of quadroon.

Words near quateron in the dictionary

  1. quaterniums
  2. quaternization
  3. quaternizations
  4. quaternize
  5. quaternized
  6. quateron
  7. quaterons
  8. quaterpolymer
  9. quaterpolymers
  10. Quathafi
  11. Quathiaski Cove

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Adapted from Wiktionary: quateron (page history and authors); quadroon (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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