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ur-race

ur-race noun: a primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race.

Noun (1)

ur-race (plural ur-races)

  1. A primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race
    • The Jew, then, was at once seen as the definitive race and an equivocal one – at once the embodiment of an Ur-race and the composite body of a mongrel race.2008, Daniel A. Novak, Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Page 108
    • Günther adduced from this fact that the characteristics of the ur-race could be determined from close observation of contemporary Armenians.2009, Alan E Steinweis, Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany - Page 28

Noun (2) capitalized: Ur-race

Ur-race (plural Ur-races)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of ur-race.

Forms of ur-race

pluralur-races
alternative formUr-race
pluralUr-races

Origin of ur-race

From ur- (“primal, original”) + race.

Words formed from ur-race

  • ur-racial

Questions about ur-race

What does ur-race mean?
Ur-race means a primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race.
What part of speech is ur-race?
Ur-race is a noun.
What is the plural of ur-race?
The plural of ur-race is ur-races.

Words near ur-race in the dictionary

  1. ur-myths
  2. ur-ocean
  3. ur-oceans
  4. ur-poem
  5. ur-poems
  6. ur-race
  7. ur-races
  8. ur-science
  9. ur-sciences
  10. ur-source
  11. ur-sources

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ur-race (page history and authors); Ur-race (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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