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half-breed

noun

Etymology

From half-breed, half- + breed.

  1. derived from *bʰreh₁-✻ — “warm”
  2. inherited from *brōdijaną✻ — “to brood”
  3. inherited from brēdan
  4. inherited from breden
  5. prefixed as half-breed — “half + breed”

Definitions

  1. A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and…

    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.

  2. A hybrid animal or plant.

  3. having dual heritage

    having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Hybridized

      Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits

    2. A member of the Half-Breeds, a former Republican political party during the Gilded Age.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA