Definition of Half-caste

1. Noun. An offensive term for the offspring of parents of different races or cultures.

Language type: Depreciation, Derogation, Disparagement
Specialized synonyms: Half-breed
Generic synonyms: Mixed-blood

Definition of Half-caste

1. Adjective. Describing someone of mixed racial descent in a derogatory manner. ¹

2. Noun. A derogatory name for a person of mixed racial descent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-caste

half-ball
half-birthday
half-birthdays
half-blood
half-blooded
half-boot
half-boots
half-bound
half-brained
half-break
half-bred
half-breed
half-brethren
half-brother
half-brothers
half-caste (current term)
half-castes
half-cell
half-cells
half-century
half-chair form
half-chance
half-clothed
half-cock
half-cocked
half-court line
half-court violation
half-cousin
half-cousins
half-crazed

Literary usage of Half-caste

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"When I intimated to my friend my intention to publish certain of his letters, he expressed a wish that they should be entitled " Letters from a half-caste ..."

2. The Aborigines of Tasmania by Henry Ling Roth, Marion E. Butler, James Backhouse Walker, John George Garson (1899)
"He is very different from the half caste Australian, and is also, ... In one case "a black woman named Sarah, who had formerly four half-caste children by a ..."

3. The Last of the Tasmanians: Or, The Black War of Van Diemen's Land by James Bonwick (1870)
"It narrates the circumstances attending an attack upon an isolated homestead, and exhibits the heroism of a half-caste, Dalrymple Briggs. ..."

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