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  1. noun A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
  2. noun A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
  3. noun A genealogical line; a lineage.
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  • The team's roster for the race will be announced in the coming days. —  This Just In
  • But a race is a race, and people are bound to notice it, and some have sniffed out some very interesting bits about what we should expect for the upcoming season. —  BuddyTV
  • Preparing for a race is a great way to add challenge to your fitness routine. —  All MayoClinic.com Topics
  • To have gained the Atalanta race was a score for their house which, added to their previous cricket successes, would place it on the highest pinnacle of the athletic records of the year And to think that my delicate Janie should be capable of such a feat!" —  The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
  • The attempt to elevate the race has been mysteriously thwarted. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
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  1. French, from Old French, from Old Italian razza, race, lineage.
  2. Middle English ras, from Old Norse rās, rush, running; see ers- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also rase; from Middle English rase, ras, commonly rees, res, a rush, running, swift course, swift current, a trial of speed, etc., from Anglo-Saxon rǣs, a rush, swift course, onset (cf. gār-rǣs, ‘spear-rush,’ fight with spears), = Icelandic rās, a race, running, course, channel: see race, v., and cf. race. The Anglo-Saxon form rǣs, Middle English rees, res, would produce a modern English *reese; the form in noun and verb, race, properly rase, is due to the Scandinavian cognates, and perhaps also in part, in the verb, to confusion with race, v.
  2. from Middle English rasen, resen, rush, run, hasten, from Anglo-Saxon rǣsan, rush, move violently, also rush on, attack, rush into; = Old Dutch rāsen, rage, = Middle Low German rasen, Middle High German G. rasen, rage, = Icelandic rāsa = Swedish rasa = Danish rase, race, rush, hurry: see race, n., 1. The form race, prop, rase, is due to the Scandinavian cognates: see the noun.
  3. A particular use of race, as ‘a swiftly running stream’; but perhaps in part due to Old French rase, raise, a ditch, channel, = Provencal rasa, a channel; origin uncertain.
  4. from French race (later G. rasse, race = Swedish ras = Danish race, breed of horses, etc.), dial. raice = Provencal Spanish raza = Portuguese raça = Italian razza, race, breed, lineage, from Old High German reiz, reiza, Middle High German reiz (German riss), line, scratch, stroke, mark, =Icelandic reitr, scratch, from rīta, scratch, = Anglo-Saxon wrītan = English write: see write. No connection with race, root, from Latin radix, though race may have been influenced by this word in some of its uses; see race.
  5. Formerly also raze; from Old French raïs, raïz = Spanish raíz = Portuguese rate = Italian radice, a root, from Latin radix, a root: see radix, radish.
  6. from Middle English racen, rasen, by apheresis from aracen, root up: see arace, and cf. rash.
  7. Origin obscure.
  8. race, v.
 

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