Lexic.us

2. Verb. (third-person singular of race) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Races

1. race [v] - See also: race

Lexicographical Neighbors of Races

Literary usage of Races

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"They practically constitute sub-races, with a general blending of the characters of the two parents, and only differing from fully-established races in more ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Stratz has also sought to compare the different races according to their relationship and development. According to him, the aboriginal Australians of ..."

3. The Descent of Man: And Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles ( Darwin (1890)
"IT is not my intention here to describe the several so-called races of men; but I am about to enquire what is the value of the differences between them ..."

4. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"They ignored the great possibilities of blended races and of special local isolations and ... But all races are more or less mixed. There are, no doubt, ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In fact, it has been shown that under widely different conditions these two races have yielded more than double the amount of the ordinary types of corn. ..."

6. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Africa—Effects of contact with higher races—The Belgian policy—The English course—Traits and ... Ascending and decadent races—Curricula of race pedagogy and ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In fact, it has been shown that under widely different conditions these two races have yielded more than double the amount of the ordinary types of corn. ..."

8. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"Africa—Effects of contact with higher races—The Belgian policy—The ... Ascending and decadent races—Curricula of race pedagogy and hygiene—Points of ..."

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