Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of race or races.
- adj. Arising from or based on differences among human racial groups: racial conflict; racial discrimination.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating or pertaining to race or lineage, or to a race or races of living beings; characteristic of race or of a race.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to a race or a people
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to a race or family of men.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups
- adj. of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people
Examples
“HAYES: I think this is part of the problem, frankly, he says it ` s suspicious that I would use the term racial preference.”
“Don't forget that racial profiling has been going on long before we had the term racial profiling.”
“Huang notes that there is a history of what he calls "racial ventriloquism" in the United States, dating from early minstrel shows with white performers wearing black-face makeup.”
Voice of America: Author Investigates Real-Life Inspiration for Fictional Charlie Chan
“After Schlessinger aired a rant about race and what she called racial "hypersensitivity," which lasted nearly six minutes, and included eleven fully articulated, uncensored instances of the N-word, it wasn't the FCC that came down on her.”
The Huffington Post: Rashad Robinson: Censorship? You Can't Be Sirius
“So, she was not trying to inject more what I call racial animus into a fire that is already out of control.”
“Thousands are expected to rally in Jena, Louisiana, tomorrow to protest what they call a racial injustice.”
“In school, there were more lessons about what they called racial science, more lecturing about degenerate art.”
“Unfortunately, McDonalds has come along with a new what I call racial profiling marketing plan, and what I think is a racist maneuver has decided that 21 percent Latino population can ` t speak English.”
“I quote: white people have retina scans, they have what they call racial profiling, DNA banks and they're monitoring our people to try to prevent the one person from coming up with the one idea.”
“HATCH: Well, you can't prefer one group over another in this day and age, that's what you call racial quotas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘racial’.
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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writing first chapter
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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Kavitha's Words
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my dictionary
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courtesy, rite, adult, adolescent, peer, bride, bridegroom, male, female, tomb, cathedral, buddhism and 9 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for racial.
bilby "For some reason, this is the part of the story where everyone wants to know if the guy was black.
Yeah, he was. No, I did not yell something racial at him. Or struggle with myself because I really wanted to yell something racial at him. Or think something racial and then feel guilty about it later. This is not that kind of story."
- Joseph Shahadi, Look Twice, racialicious.com, 19 March 2009. Mar 23, 2009