Half-breed

Quick meaning: Half-breed is a noun meaning A hybrid animal or plant.

Meaning

A hybrid animal or plant.

More Meanings

1. (of a person, dated, derogatory, offensive) having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry
2. (of an animal or plant) Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits
3. (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).

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• half-breeds
• halfbreed

Synonyms for half-breed

Depending on context, synonyms include breed, half-bred, crossbred, half-blooded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include half-blooded, breed, crossbred, half-bred, mixed-race, mestizo.

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