English Online Dictionary. What means race? What does race mean?
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: rās, IPA(key): /ɹeɪs/
- Rhymes: -eɪs
Etymology 1
From Middle English race, partially from Old English rǣs (“a race, swift or violent running, rush, onset”), from Proto-West Germanic *rās; and partially from Old Norse rás (“a running, race”); both from Proto-Germanic *rēsō (“a course”), from Proto-Indo-European *reh₁s- (“to flow, rush”). Cognate with Middle Low German râs (“a strong current”), Dutch ras (“a strong whirling current”), Danish ræs, Norwegian and Swedish ras, Norwegian rås.
Noun
race (countable and uncountable, plural races)
- A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective. Example: Several horses run in a horse race, and the first one to reach the finishing post wins
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- Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
- Synonyms: dash, running, rush
- (computing) A race condition.
- A progressive movement toward a goal.
- A fast-moving current of water, such as that which powers a millwheel.
- A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised.
- Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
- Synonyms: course, progress
- (gambling) A keno gambling session.
- A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)
- (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
- (transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).
- (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
- Synonyms: rush, shift, zip, zoom
- (intransitive, of a motor) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
Translations
Etymology 2
1560s, via Middle French race from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin.
Noun
race (countable and uncountable, plural races)
- A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
- Synonyms: breed, strain, kind, lineage, people, variety
- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
- Synonyms: clan, ethnicity, ethnic group, ethnie, nationality, tribe
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- A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
- Hyponyms: black, white, caucasian, mongoloid
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- A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
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- A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
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- A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics:
- Synonyms: kind, strain, variety
- (biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
- Synonyms: ecospecies, ecotype, subspecies
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- (botany) A plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
- Hyponyms: cultigen, cultivar, indigen
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- (animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
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- (mycology, bacteriology, informal) An infraspecific rank.
- Synonyms: pathotype, pathovar
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- (obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.
- Synonym: typicity
- (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
- Synonyms: attribute, idiosyncrasy, quirk, trait; see also Thesaurus:characteristic
- (archaic, uncountable) Ancestry.
- Synonyms: extraction, family, house, line, pedigree, stirp
- (obsolete) A series; a sequence.
- Synonyms: line, stream, succession; see also Thesaurus:sequence
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Translations
Verb
race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)
- To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
- 2020 March 24, Sophie Lewis, The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family:
- [T]he private family qua mode of social reproduction still, frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalizes and races us. It norms us for productive work.
Etymology 3
Mid 16th century. From Middle French raïz, raiz, rais (“root”), from Latin radix (“root”), from Proto-Italic *wrādīks, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds.
Noun
race (plural races)
- A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
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Etymology 4
Verb
race (third-person singular simple present races, present participle racing, simple past and past participle raced)
- Obsolete form of raze.
- Synonyms: demolish, destroy, tear up; see also Thesaurus:destroy
References
- race at OneLook Dictionary Search
- race in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “race”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Diez, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen, "Razza."
Anagrams
- -care, Acre, CERA, Care, Cera, Crea, acer, acre, care, e-car
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French race, from Italian razza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʁɑːsə]
Noun
race c (singular definite racen, plural indefinite racer)
- race (subdivision of species)
- breed
Inflection
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English race.
Alternative forms
- ræs
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɹɛjs], [ˈʁɛˀs]
Noun
race n (singular definite racet, plural indefinite race)
- a race (a contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective)
- a rush
Inflection
Etymology 3
Borrowed from English race.
Alternative forms
- ræse
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈʁɛːsə]
Verb
race (imperative race, infinitive at race, present tense racer, past tense racede, perfect tense er/har racet)
- to race (to compete in a race, a contest where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective)
- to rush
Further reading
- race on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /reːs/
- Hyphenation: race
- Rhymes: -eːs
- Homophone: rees
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English race.
Noun
race m (plural races, diminutive raceje n)
- A speed contest, a race.
- Synonym: wedloop
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
race
- first-person singular present indicative of racen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of racen
- imperative of racen
French
Etymology
As Middle French rasse "entirety of ancestors and descendants of the same family or people", from ca. 1480, spelling Middle French race recorded in 1549, from Italian razza (13th century), of uncertain origin (more at razza).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁas/
- Rhymes: -as
Noun
race f (plural races)
- race (classification)
- kind
- Synonym: espèce
- (zoology) breed
Related terms
Descendants
- → German: Rasse
- → Czech: rasa
- → Polish: rasa
- → Serbo-Croatian: rasa
- → Slovene: rasa
- → Romanian: rasă
References
- Etymology and history of “race”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
- “race”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- acre, âcre, care, caré, créa, racé
Middle French
Etymology
16th century (spelling rasse from 1480), from Italian razza (early 14th century), of uncertain origin.
Noun
race f (plural races)
- race; breed
Descendants
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈra.t͡sɛ/
- Rhymes: -at͡sɛ
- Syllabification: ra‧ce
Noun
race f
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of raca
Swedish
Etymology
From English race.
Noun
race n
- race (competition)
Declension
Derived terms
- köra sitt eget race
References
- race in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- race in Svensk ordbok (SO)