negroid
A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skinA person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.
» Mixing amongst the human subspecies Mongoloids, Caucasoids, Negroids, and Australoids is quite common.
nonong · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(dated, ethnic, offensive, slur)A person with characteristics of Africans, particularly coiled hair and dark skin.
негро́идnegróid
- a person with African ancestry, ‘Negro’ and ‘Negroid’ are archaic and pejorative today
Examples
2 sentencesMixing amongst the human subspecies Mongoloids, Caucasoids, Negroids, and Australoids is quite common.
Cuban society is chiefly composed of Caucasoids, Negroids, and Super-Sinodonts (Amerindians). There is mixing.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
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Forms
plural: negroidsSynonyms
2 synonyms- a person with African ancestry, ‘Negro’ and ‘Negroid’ are archaic and pejorative today:BlackAfrican-American
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.