NEGROID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Negroid mean? 

• NEGROID (noun)
  The noun NEGROID has 1 sense:

1. a person with African ancestry,

  Familiarity information: NEGROID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEGROID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person with African ancestry,

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

African-American; Black; Negro; Negroid

Context example:

Negroid

Hypernyms ("Negroid" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Negroid"):

soul brother (a fellow Black man)

picaninny; piccaninny; pickaninny ((ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child)

Domain usage:

archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

Here is a quotation from Eckermann’s _Voodooism and the Negroid Religions:_

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Brachycephalic, gray-eyed, black-haired, with suggestion of the negroid. Celtic, I presume?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was certain from the first, however, that they would eventually be detected, as the cook, from the evidence of one or two tradespeople who have caught a glimpse of him through the window, was a man of most remarkable appearance—being a huge and hideous mulatto, with yellowish features of a pronounced negroid type.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)