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My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.
Peter Abrahams

Meaning of "Cape Coloured" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CAPE COLOURED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CAPE COLOURED

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Cape Coloured is a noun.
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WHAT DOES CAPE COLOURED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cape Coloured

Cape Coloureds

In Southern Africa Cape Coloureds is the name given to an ethnic group composed primarily of persons of mixed race. Although Cape Coloureds form a minority group within South Africa, they are the predominant population group in the Western Cape. They are generally bilingual, though some speak only Afrikaans, and others primarily speak English. Some Cape Coloureds may "code switch", speaking a patois of Afrikaans and English called Kaapse Afrikaans. Cape Coloureds were defined under the apartheid regime as a subset of the larger Coloured race group. At least one genetic study indicates that Cape Coloureds have an ancestry consisting of the following ethnic groups: ▪ Khoisan: ▪ Bantu-speaking Africans: ▪ Ethnic groups in Europe: ▪ Asian peoples...

Definition of Cape Coloured in the English dictionary

The definition of Cape Coloured in the dictionary is a racial classification under apartheid for people of mixed ethic origin.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CAPE COLOURED

Cape Blanco
Cape Bon
Cape Breton Island
Cape buffalo
Cape Canaveral
Cape cart
Cape Chelyuskin
Cape Cod
Cape Cod cottage
Cape Colony
Cape Comorin
Cape Delgado
Cape Dezhnev
Cape doctor
Cape Dutch
Cape Finisterre
Cape Flats
cape gooseberry
Cape Guardafui
Cape Hatteras

WORDS THAT END LIKE CAPE COLOURED

armoured
chocolate-coloured
coloured
contoured
discoloured
enamoured
featured
flavoured
flesh-coloured
good-humoured
honoured
laboured
light-coloured
multicoloured
pastel-coloured
rose-coloured
rust-coloured
time-honoured
unarmoured
uncoloured
unflavoured

Synonyms and antonyms of Cape Coloured in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Cape Coloured» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CAPE COLOURED

Find out the translation of Cape Coloured to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Cape Coloured from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cape Coloured» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

海角色
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Cabo color
570 millions of speakers

English

Cape Coloured
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

केप रंगीन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الرأس الملونة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Мыс Цветная
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Cabo Colorido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কেপ রঙীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Cap coloré
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cape Colored
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Cape Coloured
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ケープカラコン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

케이프 색깔
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tanjung Colored
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mũi màu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கேப் கலர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

केप रंगीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cape renkli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cape Coloured
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Kolorowa peleryna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Мис Кольорова
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cape colorat
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Cape Coloured
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Die Kaapse bruin
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Kap Färgad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Cape Coloured
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Cape Coloured

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CAPE COLOURED»

The term «Cape Coloured» is used very little and occupies the 151.040 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cape Coloured

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QUOTES WITH «CAPE COLOURED»

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Peter Abrahams
My mother was a member of the Cape Coloured community. 'Coloured' is the South African word for the half-caste community that was a by-product of the early contact between black and white.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPE COLOURED»

Discover the use of Cape Coloured in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cape Coloured and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Every Step of the Way: The Journey to Freedom in South Africa
It is bizarre that there was a law in modern times that, as Hansard, the official record of parliament shows, enabled people to change from 'White to Cape Coloured; Cape Coloured to White; Cape Coloured to Chinese; White to Chinese ; White ...
Michael Morris, John Linnegar, 2004
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You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town
Cape Coloured has been capitalized as a historical marker; similarly, when the term denotes the specific apartheid classification named in the Population Registration Act of 1950, it appears with an initial capital and in quotations. In an essay ...
Zoë Wicomb, 1987
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Colour and Culture in South Africa: A Study of the Status of ...
CHAPTER TWO THE CAPE COLOURED PEOPLE He arose and he exists in our midst; he knows no other civilization than thai of the white man; whatever his shortcomings may often be in respect of it, his ' lewensbeskoulng' is fundamentally ...
Sheila Patterson, 1953
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Encyclopedia of Africa
Like the Cape Malay and the Griqua, the Cape Coloured (or simply Coloured) people are part of a larger South African group of mixed African, European, and Asian descent. Their ancestors include slaves brought to the Cape Colony from the ...
Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, 2010
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Colour&Cult S Africa Ils 107
CHAPTER TWO THE CAPE COLOURED PEOPLE He arose and he exists in our midst; he knows no other civilization than that of the white man; whatever his shortcomings may often be in respect of it, his 'lewensbeskouing' is fundamentally ...
Sheila Patterson, 2013
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South African Music: A Century of Traditions in Transformation
Becoming “Cape Coloured” Sathima Bea Benjamin's family adds a new twist to the problem of being labeled Cape Coloured, because they were not Cape Colour- eds in the historical definition of the term. Half her family hailed from the ...
Carol Ann Muller, 2004
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Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African ...
ulation came to be known as the “Cape Coloured,” a group distinct from black Africans. The Cape Coloureds used this distinction to claim superiority over other African groups and to secure better-paying jobs. Franchise restrictions began to ...
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., 2005
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Walking a Tightrope: Towards a Social History of the ...
Under the leadership of Mcleod, REVA in the late 1920s thus represented an organized attempt by Cape Coloured ethnic mobilizers to carve out a niche for their "diaspora" group in a Rhodesia which was experiencing change at various ...
James Muzondidya, 2005
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Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa
Cape Coloured People, p. viii. The Cape Coloured People, as Christopher Saunders has noted, was a pioneering account of previously neglected subjects in the history of the Cape Colony but 'it was mainly a study of white policy towards  ...
Wayne Dooling, 2007
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John Thelwall in the Wordsworth Circle: The Silenced Partner
I understand the children to whom you refer are not local products but rather Cape Coloured and it would be difficult to send them to missions in our territory that cater for the education of local half-castes . . . I think all that it is necessary for you ...
Judith Thompson, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPE COLOURED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cape Coloured is used in the context of the following news items.
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South Africa contrasted with Israel
... ranging from 'white' through 'Cape Coloured' and 'Coloured person of South-West Africa' to 'Baster of Rehoboth' and 'Nama of South-West ... «San Diego Jewish World, Jun 15»
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You say I'm not African – but that's where I'm from?
A Cape Coloured? A Greek? A Portuguese from Angola, say? A Moroccan? A fourth generation Chinese?John West, just taking a flyer, I would ... «Thought Leader, Jun 15»
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The DA is the democratic party in South Africa
You will never see a white leader in the ANC, not now not ever. Where is Trevor Manuel today? Although he is classified as Cape Coloured, the ... «News24, May 15»
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Three hundred years of low non-paternity in a human population
Genetically, this can also be seen from the significant European male contribution to the Cape Coloured population, whereas an European ... «Nature.com, May 15»
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Chappie - Film Review
I'm used to robots sounding like Siri and I never anticipated Chappie having a Cape Coloured accent. It was a strange thing to compute, but it ... «Namibia Economist, Apr 15»
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Consumer Court: 'In Flagrante Delicto'
You see, in my Cape Coloured culture it is considered extremely impolite to be seen on the street with rollers in your hair. Now this picture had ... «New Era, Mar 15»
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Righting the sins of the past
In 1969, the South African prime minister, John Vorster, refused entry to the England cricket team because a Cape Coloured player who had ... «ESPNcricinfo.com, Feb 15»
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Who Owns What?
A further element was admixed with the Cape Coloured community upon the arrival of Bantu tribes. The Bantu tribes, the forefathers of the ... «News24, Jan 15»
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Let's not forget SA's role in WW2
Another volunteer was Corporal William Cloete of the Cape Coloured Corps and the leader of a strecher bearer team attached to the Cape ... «Politicsweb, Dec 14»
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Chester Missing is a jerk
He started off as a “Cape Coloured” with Kaapie accent and has slowly morphed into a non-specfic race group with a hybrid accent. Conrad did ... «News24, Nov 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cape Coloured [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cape-coloured>. May 2024 ».
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