half-breed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).
Dated; Derogatory; Offensive
adj
Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits
noun
A member of the Half-Breeds, a former Republican political party during the Gilded Age.
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."
- "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."