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NEGROID

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with African ancestry,

Example:

Negroid

Synonyms:

African-American; Black; Negro; Negroid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Negroid" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Negroid"):

soul brother (a fellow Black man)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)

Domain usage:

archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

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