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.
- 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.
- Resembling or akin to the negroes. Also
negroöid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characteristic of the negro.
- adjective Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
- noun A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.
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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