Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Miscegenation   Listen
Miscegenation

noun
1.
Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons).  Synonyms: crossbreeding, interbreeding.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Miscegenation" Quotes from Famous Books



... friendly attitude toward the Indians, the Negroes were accepted by them as equals, even during the days of slavery when the blacks on account of the cruelties of their masters escaped to the wilderness.[21] Here we are at sea as to the extent to which this invasion and subsequent miscegenation of the black and red races extended for the reason that neither the Indians nor these migrating Negroes kept records and the United States Government has been disposed to classify all mixed breeds in tribes as Indians. Having equal opportunity among the red men, the ...
— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson

... knew now that he was fond of her as a man is of a woman—and it was hell! For no rationalization in the universe would allow him to define her as human. Copper was humanoid—something like human. And to live with her and love her would not be miscegenation, which was bad enough, but bestiality which ...
— The Lani People • J. F. Bone



Words linked to "Miscegenation" :   facts of life, reproduction, interbreeding, miscegenate, crossbreeding, breeding, procreation



Copyright © 2024 Dictionary One.com