HUMAN RACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human race mean? 

• HUMAN RACE (noun)
  The noun HUMAN RACE has 1 sense:

1. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

  Familiarity information: HUMAN RACE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN RACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All of the living human inhabitants of the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world

Context example:

she always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women

Hypernyms ("human race" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

Meronyms (members of "human race"):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

 Context examples 

The sub-species of the human race to which you unfortunately belong has always been below my mental horizon.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A thousand times would I have shed my own blood, drop by drop, to have saved their lives; but I could not, my father, indeed I could not sacrifice the whole human race.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this—if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to the new.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When I thought of my family, my friends, my countrymen, or the human race in general, I considered them, as they really were, Yahoos in shape and disposition, perhaps a little more civilized, and qualified with the gift of speech; but making no other use of reason, than to improve and multiply those vices whereof their brethren in this country had only the share that nature allotted them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

All the paper that I possess consists of five old note-books and a lot of scraps, and I have only the one stylographic pencil; but so long as I can move my hand I will continue to set down our experiences and impressions, for, since we are the only men of the whole human race to see such things, it is of enormous importance that I should record them whilst they are fresh in my memory and before that fate which seems to be constantly impending does actually overtake us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Alone, I should have been ignorant of the names of these giant growths, but our men of science pointed out the cedars, the great silk cotton trees, and the redwood trees, with all that profusion of various plants which has made this continent the chief supplier to the human race of those gifts of Nature which depend upon the vegetable world, while it is the most backward in those products which come from animal life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"But," I cried, surely the whole experience of the human race is not to be set aside on account of a single sketch—I had turned over the leaves and ascertained that there was nothing more in the book—a single sketch by a wandering American artist who may have done it under hashish, or in the delirium of fever, or simply in order to gratify a freakish imagination.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)