Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or being a human racial classification traditionally distinguished by physical characteristics such as brown to black skin and often tightly curled hair and including peoples indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa. No longer in scientific use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling or akin to the negroes. Also
negroöid . - noun An individual of a negroid race, such as those of Micronesia, the Negritos of the Philippine Islands, and the mixed tribes of northeastern Africa.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.
- adjective Characteristic of the negro.
- adjective Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- adjective characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One Mongoloid female had been classified as Negroid.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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One Mongoloid female had been classified as Negroid.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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One Mongoloid female had been classified as Negroid.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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In 2004 on a Yahoo group I engaged in a discussion with Dr. Mustafa Ansari, who contends that the discovery in Brazil of an 11,500 year‑old skull of a woman with "Negroid" features proves that African Americans were here first, and so all non‑black Americans owe reparations to African Americans.
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He explained to the board, obviously unschooled in the nuance of racial slurs, that the word "Negroid" was offensive to many Negroes.
Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 Morris J. MacGregor
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Crucially, they decided that "Negroid" and "Arab" were two different "races," the former considered indigenous (native) and the latter foreign
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
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Southern Italians in particular, concluded Dorsey, were clearly of “Negroid” ancestry and therefore “of questionable value from a mental, moral, or physical standpoint.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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It is well understood that white men of that time considered the Negroid race inferior and childlike compared to whites.
Jefferson on the Indians, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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There is such a thing as a Caucasian race, a Congoid (formerly know as Negroid) race, a Capoid race, a Mongoloid Race and Australoid race.
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There is such a thing as a Caucasian race, a Congoid (formerly know as Negroid) race, a Capoid race, a Mongoloid Race and Australoid race.
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