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HALF-CASTE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does half-caste mean?

• HALF-CASTE (noun)
The noun HALF-CASTE has 1 sense:

1. offspring of parents of different races or cultures

Familiarity information: HALF-CASTE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HALF-CASTE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Offspring of parents of different races or cultures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("half-caste" is a kind of...):

mixed-blood (a person whose ancestors belonged to two or more races)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "half-caste"):

breed; half-breed (half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and American Indian parents))

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