half-caste

Speech parts

1. half-caste - Noun

2. half-caste - Adjective

Meaning

One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

half caste

Synonyms

ladino mutt half blood mule mestizo cur mongrel combination mixed cross breed hybrid amalgam coloured miscegenation

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Antonyms

thoroughbred separate division pure autonomous detached

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Hypernyms

mixed-blood

Hyponyms

half-breed

Examples

When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy. Ruud Gullit

Passage of the Act gave the colony of Victoria a wide suite of powers over Aboriginal and 'half-caste' persons, including the forcible removal of children, especially 'at risk' girls. Source: Internet

In these Australian states and territories, institutions (both government and missionary ) for half-caste children were established in the early decades of the 20th century to care and educate the mixed-race children taken from their families. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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