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Definition 2024
multiracial
multiracial
English
Adjective
multiracial (comparative more multiracial, superlative most multiracial)
Translations
of, or having a mixture of, multiple races
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Noun
multiracial (plural multiracials)
- An individual of more than one race.
- 2008 March 23, Peggy Orenstein, “Mixed Messenger”, in New York Times:
- Hawaii, Obama’s childhood home, is the most diverse state in the Union: 21 percent of residents identified as “Hapa,” a Hawaiian word meaning “half” that has gone from being a slur against mixed-race Asians to a point of pride — and has increasingly been adopted by multiracials of all kinds on the Mainland.
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French
Etymology
Adjective
multiracial m (feminine singular multiraciale, masculine plural multiraciaux, feminine plural multiraciales)