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English
Etymology
From inter- + racial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌɪntəˈɹeɪʃəl/
- Hyphenation: in‧ter‧ra‧cial
Adjective
interracial (comparative more interracial, superlative most interracial)
- 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: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.
Antonyms
Translations
between or including two or more races
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)
- interracial
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Spanish
Etymology
From inter- + racial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /interaˈθjal/
- IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /interaˈsjal/
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: in‧te‧rra‧cial
Adjective
interracial m or f (masculine and feminine plural interraciales)
- interracial
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