racial
//ˈɹeɪʃəl//
Forms
- Comparative
- more racial
- Superlative
- most racial
- Plural
- racials
Definitions
1.Of or relating to a race (or a people).
- From a musical point of view, the modern Iberian seems a fac-simile of the mediæval Frenchman. Barring out racial distinctions, they both live in an analogous environment.
- Such extremes have always been characteristic of the barbarous northmen, and we may not be wrong in referring to racial causes for the solution of this problem of contrarieties otherwise inexplicable.
1.A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2546
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁s-der.
Proto-Germanic *rēsōder.
Proto-West Germanic *rās
Old English rǣs
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Proto-Germanic *rēsō
Old Norse rásbor.
Middle English race
English race
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.