interracial

interracial

See also: inter-racial

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From inter- + racial.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˌɪntəˈɹeɪʃəl/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ra‧cial

    Adjective

    interracial (comparative more interracial, superlative most interracial)

    1. Between or among two or more different races.
      Interracial struggle against Europid people is a para-Marxist notion.
      • 1991 June, Ella Taylor, “Identity crises”, in The Atlantic[1]:
        In Spike Lee’s story of interracial romance, Jungle Fever (June), Wesley Snipes plays a young buppie New York architect whose affair with his Italian-American secretary (Annabella Sciorra) threatens his marriage and her relationship to her family.
      • 2005, Heide Fehrenbach, Race After Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America, page 64:
        Like their American counterparts, German officials frowned on interracial sexual fraternization.

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    French

    Etymology

      From inter- +‎ racial.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key): /ɛ̃.tɛ.ʁa.sjal/ ~ /ɛ̃.te.ʁa.sjal/

      Adjective

      interracial (feminine interraciale, masculine plural interraciaux, feminine plural interraciales)

      1. interracial

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      Portuguese

      Adjective

      interracial m or f (plural interraciais)

      1. misspelling of inter-racial

      Spanish

      Etymology

      From inter- +‎ racial.

      Pronunciation

      Adjective

      interracial m or f (masculine and feminine plural interraciales)

      1. interracial

      Further reading