yellow race
1yellow race — n. 〚in allusion to the typical skin color, perceived as yellowish〛 loosely the Mongoloid group of mankind: usually a term of prejudice: see MONGOLOID * * * …
2yellow race — n. [in allusion to the typical skin color, perceived as yellowish] loosely the Mongoloid group of mankind: usually a term of prejudice: see MONGOLOID …
3yellow race — race of peoples with yellowish colored skin, races from the Far East …
4yellow race — Synonyms and related words: Alpine race, Australoid race, Bushman race, Mediterranean race, Melanesian race, Nilotic race, Nordic race, Papuan race, Polynesian race, Pygmoid race, black race, brown race, icterus, jaundice, melanochroi,… …
5Yellow race — noun an Asian race • Syn: ↑Mongoloid race, ↑Mongolian race • Hypernyms: ↑race • Member Meronyms: ↑Oriental, ↑oriental person …
6Yellow Peril — (sometimes Yellow Terror) was a color metaphor for race that originated in the late nineteenth century with immigration of Chinese laborers to various Western countries, notably the United States, and later associated with the Japanese during the …
7Race — Race, n. [F. race; cf. Pr. & Sp. raza, It. razza; all from OHG. reiza line, akin to E. write. See {Write}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same… …
8yellow peril — n. [< YELLOW (RACE)] the threat to Western civilization presented by Asian peoples, esp. those of China or Japan: widely believed in during the late 19th and early 20th cent. in North America, Europe, and Australia …
9race — race1 /rays/, n., v., raced, racing. n. 1. a contest of speed, as in running, riding, driving, or sailing. 2. races, a series of races, usually of horses or dogs, run at a set time over a regular course: They spent a day at the races. 3. any… …
10Race — /rays/, n. Cape, a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland. * * * I Term once commonly used in physical anthropology to denote a division of humankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a… …