biracial

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adjective

Of or pertaining to two races.

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Meanings

adjectivebiracial (not comparable)

alternative bi-racial

  1. not comparableOf or pertaining to two races.

    Would Mr. Kim prefer that our biracial protagonists leave Master Wong to die? Is he ignoring the fact they save him with skills the master taught them?

    2021 March 31, Melissa Chen, “Opinion ‘Kung Fu Cavemen’ isn’t racist — just the victim of moral panic by a self-righteous few”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022
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    Some Americans would certainly see Ms. Harris — the first nominee of a major party who would be both a woman and biracial, with Jamaican and Indian heritage — as a transformational, inspiring figure.

    2024 July 24, Jeremy W. Peters, Audra D. S. Burch, Clyde McGrady, “Black Voters Feel Excited, and Worried, about a Kamala Harris Campaign”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2024
nounbiracial (plural biracials)

plural biracials · alternative bi-racial

  1. A person belonging to two races.

    Black-white biracials who are Baptist may be more inclined than nonreligious black-white biracials to identify as singularly black because they perceive a stronger emotional racial attachment to African Americans.

    2018, Lauren Davenport, Politics Beyond Black and White, page 60

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveconsisting of or combining two races

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  3. Proto-Italic*dwi-
  4. Latinbi-
  5. Englishbi-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₁reh₁s-
  7. Proto-Germanic*rēsō
  8. Proto-West Germanic*rās
  9. Old Englishrǣs
  10. Proto-Germanic*rēsō
  11. Old Norserás
  12. Middle Englishrace
  13. Englishrace
  14. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  16. Englishracial
  17. Englishbiracial

From bi- + racial.

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Translations

Finnish kaksirotuinen
  • kaksirotuinenof or pertaining to or stemming from two races.
German zweirassig
  • zweirassigof or pertaining to or stemming from two races.
Russian двухра́совый
  • двухра́совый (dvuxrásovyj)of or pertaining to or stemming from two races.

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Cite this entry
APA

biracial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biracial

MLA

“biracial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biracial. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “biracial,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biracial.

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