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mixed origins

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English

Syllables
mixed o-ri-gins
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having mixed racial, ethnic, or national parentage or ancestry. This term was promoted as an alternative to “mixed race” in a 1994 resolution of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in part because of its correlation to mid-twentieth-century British laws using the phrase “race or ethnic or national origins”, but did not see wide use outside of the UK anthropology field.

British usage

Usage

Inflected Forms

more mixed origins (comparative) most mixed origins (superlative)

Phrases

mixed-race mixed heritage

Frequently Paired Words

mixed-race mixed heritage

Questions

What does mixed origins mean?
Having mixed racial, ethnic, or national parentage or ancestry. This term was promoted as an alternative to “mixed race” in a 1994 resolution of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in part because of its correlation to mid-twentieth-century British laws using the phrase “race or ethnic or national origins”, but did not see wide use outside of the UK anthropology field.

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