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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Spanish

Etymology

From inter- +‎ racial.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /interaˈθjal/ [ĩn̪.t̪e.raˈθjal] (Spain)
  • IPA(key): /interaˈsjal/ [ĩn̪.t̪e.raˈsjal] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: in‧te‧rra‧cial

Adjective

interracial m or f (masculine and feminine plural interraciales)

  1. interracial

Further reading