raced
/ɹˈeɪst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of race
adj
Pertaining to or marked in terms of race.
Example Sentences
- "McKinney presents a large number of accounts by her students that describe white people coming to realise they are raced."
- "In fact, as Jordan's analysis attests, whites constructed raced identities for Africans founded not so much on their assumptions about a color but more on the various ways in which they experienced life alongside their darker-skinned neighbors."
- "In this study, Mulberry Bush Nursery took exclusively fee-paying, predominantly white, middle class children from three months to three years old. This provided a site for highly classed and 'raced' relationships between nursery worker and mother, where the nursery worker is positioned in an inferior position of servitude to the professional middle-class mother."