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quintroon

Meaning of "quintroon" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF QUINTROON

kwɪnˈtruːn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUINTROON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quintroon 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 QUINTROON 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 quintroon in the English dictionary

The definition of quintroon in the dictionary is a person having one octoroon and one white parent and therefore having one-sixteenth black blood.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUINTROON

bestrewn · Cameroon · croon · Duntroon · Gudrun · Iskenderun · Kamerun · kroon · macaroon · maroon · octoroon · overstrewn · patroon · poltroon · poultroone · prune · quadroon · roon · rune · strewn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUINTROON

quintan · Quintana Roo · quintar · quinte · quintessence · quintessential · quintessentially · quintet · quintette · quintic · quintile · Quintilian · quintillion · quintillionth · Quintin · quintuple · quintuplet · quintuplicate · quintuplication · quintuply

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUINTROON

ceroon · gadroon · gambroon · godroon · gombroon · heroon · octaroon · pickaroon · quarteroon · Scandaroon · seroon · shagroon · spadroon · tenoroon · vinegarroon

Synonyms and antonyms of quintroon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «quintroon» into 25 languages

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The translations of quintroon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quintroon» in English.
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quintroon
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quintroon
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quintroon
380 millions of speakers
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quintroon
280 millions of speakers
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278 millions of speakers
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quintroon
270 millions of speakers
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quintroon
260 millions of speakers
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quintroon
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Quintroon
190 millions of speakers
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quintroon
180 millions of speakers
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quintroon
130 millions of speakers
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quintroon
85 millions of speakers
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Quintroon
85 millions of speakers
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quintroon
80 millions of speakers
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quintroon
75 millions of speakers
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पंचकोन
75 millions of speakers
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quintroon
70 millions of speakers
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quintroon
65 millions of speakers
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quintroon
50 millions of speakers
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quintroon
40 millions of speakers
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quintroon
30 millions of speakers
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quintroon
15 millions of speakers
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quintroon
14 millions of speakers
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quintroon
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quintroon
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUINTROON»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUINTROON»

Discover the use of quintroon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quintroon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Introduction to Anthropology
Difficulties of the question ; Influence of the parents on the offspring ; Conflicting opinions ; Burmeister ; Buffon's views ; Mestizoes ; Mulattoes ; Quadroons ; Quintroon ; Tschudi and Poppig ; Danes and Hindoos ; Opinions of Geoflroy St. Hilaire, ...
Theodor Waitz, J. Frederick Collingwood, 1863
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Royal Highness
I'm a quintroon." "A what?" "A quintroon." "That goes with the Adirondacks and the refraction, Miss Spoelmann. I don't know what it is. I've already told you that I don't know much." "Well, it's a fact. My grandfather, thoughtless as he always was, ...
Thomas Mann, 1909
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Introduction to anthropology. Ed., with additions by the ...
Difficulties of the question ; Influence of the parents on the offspring ; Conflicting opinions; Burmeister; Buffon's views; Mestizoes; Mulat t oes ; Quadroons ; Quintroon ; Tschudi and Poppig ; Danes and Hindoos ; Opinions of Geoffroy St. Hilaire, ...
Theodor Waitz, J Frederick Collingwood, 1863
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What's Wrong With Being Black?
Octoroon – Child of a White and Quintroon All these people were regarded as colored. In the Caribbean, particularly in Jamaica, colored people outnumbered the Africans, that is the dark skinned, and they were more skilled in trade andwere ...
Matthew Ashimolowos, 2011
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An Analytical Dictionary of the English Language in which ...
The child of a White man by a MUSTEE-WOMAN is a Mus'riPHINI. The child of a Mustiphini by aWhite father is a QUINTROON; and the child of a QUINTROON by a White father is free by law.” Such was recently the West-Indian Slave-code.
David BOOTH (Author of the Analytical Dictionary.), 1835
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BIRDS OF A FEATHER
But then Amy—I guess she was feeling left out ofthe conversation—answered quickly as she had already figuredit out, saying, “I ama quintroon...” She breathily sighs with delight. It was clear thatnotonly wasAmy happy that I now knew of her ...
Fred Ephraim, 2009
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An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied ...
Quinquelocular (twin-lnve-l0k'~u-lar) [Quinqua five; Quintroon (lewin-troon') [Sp., yuinteron]. A person, loculus, a cell]. In biology, having five cells or com- one of whose parents is of the white race, and the partments, as a five-celled ovary.
George Milbry Gould, 1903
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Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity
... ofmulattoandNegro Mulatto: child of negress and white man Quadroon: childofmulatto woman and whiteman Mustee:child of quadroon(orpure Amerindian) and white man Mustiphini:child ofmusteeandwhite man Quintroon: child ofmustiphini ...
Amina Mama, 2002
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The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's ...
... one mulatto parent), “mustee” or “mestee” (one white parent, one quadroon parent), “mustifini (one white parent, one mustee parent), “quintroon” (one white parent, one mustifini parent), and“octaroon”(one white parent, one quintroon parent) ...
Delle, 2014
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Essentials of Christian Theology
... man Quintroon: the child of a mustiphini and a white man Octoroon: the child of a quintroon and a white man8 The goal of this gradation is the obliteration of the " black stain." In nineteenth- century Jamaica, an Octoroon was legally white and ...
Stanley James Grenz, William Carl Placher, 2003

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUINTROON»

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When it comes to race, it's the Left which is now cranky and obsessive
In those places they had entire dictionaries of words, describing degrees of blackness, ranging from octoroon, quadroon, mulattos, quintroon, and griffes, to the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 13»
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