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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo)..
Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.
It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.
The half-breeds or Metis along the Saskatchewan River asked that they be given a legal title to the land which they occupied. […] The half-breeds found that constitutional agitation was hopeless and began open hostilities.
Some oppose A.I.M. leaders as outsiders; some resent the leadership of Mr. Wilson; full‐blooded Indians resent halfbreeds; the have‐nots resent those with relative wealth.
Use half-breed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Half-breed means (dated, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo)..
Common synonyms include breed, half-bred, crossbred, half-blooded.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.
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