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Meaning of "quadroon" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD QUADROON

From Spanish cuarterón, from cuarto quarter, from Latin quartus.
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PRONUNCIATION OF QUADROON

quadroon  [kwɒˈdruːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUADROON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quadroon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES QUADROON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quadroon

Quadroon, and the associated words quarteron, octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and European ancestry in the slave societies of the Americas, but also, within Australia, to those of Aboriginal and European ancestry. The societies incorporated the terms in law and government to define rights and restrictions. The use of such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which is perceived by the dominant group as being subordinate. The racial designations refer specifically to the number of full-blooded African ancestors or equivalent, emphasizing the quantitative least, with quadroon signifying that a person has one-quarter black ancestry, etc.

Definition of quadroon in the English dictionary

The definition of quadroon in the dictionary is the offspring of a Mulatto and a White person; a person who is one-quarter Black.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUADROON


Cameroon
ˌkæməˈruːn
croon
kruːn
Duntroon
dʌnˈtruːn
gadroon
ɡəˈdruːn
godroon
ɡəˈdruːn
Gudrun
ˈɡʊdruːn
Iskenderun
ɪsˈkɛndəˌruːn
Kamerun
ˈkaməruːn
kroon
kruːn
Kudrun
ˈkʊdruːn
macaroon
ˌmækəˈruːn
maroon
məˈruːn
octoroon
ˌɒktəˈruːn
patroon
pəˈtruːn
poltroon
pɒlˈtruːn
prune
pruːn
roon
ruːn
rune
ruːn
spadroon
spəˈdruːn
strewn
struːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUADROON

quadrisect
quadrisection
quadrisyllabic
quadrisyllable
quadrivalence
quadrivalency
quadrivalent
quadrivia
quadrivial
quadrivium
quadrophonic
quadrophonics
quadrophony
quadruman
quadrumanous
quadrumvir
quadrumvirate
quadruped
quadrupedal
quadruple

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUADROON

ceroon
gambroon
gombroon
heroon
octaroon
pickaroon
quarteroon
quintroon
Scandaroon
seroon
shagroon
tenoroon
vinegarroon

Synonyms and antonyms of quadroon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «quadroon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUADROON

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

Translator English - Chinese

quadroon
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cuarterón
570 millions of speakers

English

quadroon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

quadroon
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

quadroon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

квартерон
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quadroon
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বর্ণসঙ্কর জাতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quarteron
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Quadroon
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Terzerone
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

quadroon
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

quadroon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Quadroon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

người lai da đen một phần tư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

quadroon
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चतुर्भुज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zenci melezi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

quadroon
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

quadroon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

квартеронів
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

quadroon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

quadroon
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

quadrone
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kvadron
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

quadroon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quadroon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUADROON»

The term «quadroon» is normally little used and occupies the 124.802 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «QUADROON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «quadroon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «quadroon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quadroon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUADROON»

Discover the use of quadroon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quadroon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of ...
Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World
Emily Clark, 2013
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The French Quarter of New Orleans
The Quadroon Balls Because of the peculiar caste system based upon the quantity of white blood, quadroon and octoroon women did not generally mix with full- or half-blooded blacks, but Louisiana law absolutely forbade them to marry ...
Jim Fraiser, West Freeman
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The Quadroon, Or, Adventures in the Far West
Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time.
Mayne Reid, 2012
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The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, ...
Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor. 700 R /. QUADROON BALLS Quadroon balls — social gatherings peculiar to New Orleans society in the first half of the ...
Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor, 2002
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The Alabama Folk Lyric: A Study in Origins and Media of ...
38 My Pretty Quadroon This piece, very much in the Stephen Collins Foster tradition, was published by the H.M. Higgins Co., around 1865. It appeared in Beadle's Dime Song Book, No. 16 (1865, p. 40), with no author given. Beck ( Lumberjack ...
Ray Broadus Browne, 1979
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Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy
can still point to the quadroon as a casualty of sorts: not a casualty of racism but a casualty of the novel's subjectivist discourse, which, to the extent that it is centered on Edna, and to the extent that it coincides with her epistemology, must also ...
Wai-chee Dimock, 1997
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Quadroon
Quadroon, and the associated words octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and Caucasian ancestry, but also, within Australia, to those of ...
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Century ...
Considering the cultural limitations placed on white women, as well as their social advantages over nonwhite women, Cable illuminates complex intersections between race and gender. In addition, by pairing a quadroon woman with both her ...
Cassandra Jackson, 2004
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Race Consciousness: Reinterpretations for the New Century
To these eager visitors, the balls, and particularly the quadroon women, were quite the rave. Gentlemen were almost always gushingly attentive to the quadroon maidens. One described them as "pretty and often handsome, I have rarely, ...
Judith Jackson Fossett, 1997
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The American Lounger: Or, Tales, Sketches, and Legends, ...
THE. QUADROON. The last solemn peal of the organ ceased; the worshippers rose from the pavement; the priest descended from the altar; the candles were extinguished, and the mass for that day was over. Slowly the dense cloud passed  ...
Joseph Holt Ingraham, 1839

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUADROON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term quadroon is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hamilton's Place in Our Hearts and Minds (and Wallets)
Then there are those juicy rumors that Hamilton himself might have been a quadroon or octoroon – that is, that his mother might have been part black. (W.E.B. ... «Bloomberg View, Jun 15»
2
Wingates discover new Wingates
“We know that Mary Samuel was a Mulatto or maybe a Quadroon, she was very light skinned”, said Deryl. “We have relatives in California who are very light ... «TheRecordLive.com, Jun 15»
3
From 'quadroon' to 'Hispanic': The ever-changing way the Census …
In 1890, there were categories for people who had "one-fourth black blood" ("quadroon") or one-eighth ("octoroon"). In 1930, there were complicated instructions ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
4
Review: Mat Johnson's 'Loving Day' Takes a Satirical Slant on …
I surpassed octoroon status, too; I was a quadroon with a percentage point to spare.” “Loving Day” is about being blackish in America, a subject about which Mr. «New York Times, May 15»
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Proving My Blackness
Quadroon, 25 percent African. Octoroon, 12.5 percent African. The next stop down, at 6.25 percent African, was mustefino. I'd never heard anyone call himself ... «New York Times, May 15»
6
Is Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt a Racist Troll, Literary …
Yes, Merritt is defending the usage of words like quadroon and octoroon — words invented by colonialists for the purpose of quantifying the lives of subjects and ... «Flavorwire, Mar 15»
7
Seattle family's white slave ancestor inspires new book
His Scottish father had fought on the American side in the Revolutionary War and afterward married an enslaved woman who was classified as a quadroon, ... «The Seattle Times, Feb 15»
8
JULIA STREET WITH POYDRAS THE PARROT
I have just perused Fabulous New Orleans by Lyle Saxon and write in response to his Chapter XIX, “The Quadroon Balls.” Yet, let me pause and introduce ... «My New Orleans, Jan 15»
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Killed for his skin colour
Alain is himself part-métis, a “quadroon” as he puts it, as his grandfather married and had children with a Cambodian dancer in the king's ballet, Ratt Poss. «The Phnom Penh Post, Oct 14»
10
RIP Joe Sample: Houston Music Icon Dies at 75
For the past 16 years, Sample had been collaborating with New England folk singer Jonatha Brooke on QUADROON, a biography of Henriette DeLille, ... «Houston Press, Sep 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Quadroon [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/quadroon>. Apr 2024 ».
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