1 [onlybeforenoun] happening or existing between people of different races:
racial hatred / prejudice / tension / violence * racial equality * They have pledged to end racial discrimination in areas such as employment.
2 [usuallybeforenoun] connected with a person's race:
racial groups / minorities * a person's racial origin * The community has a religious rather than a racial identity.
racially adverb:
The attacks were not racially motivated. * racially mixed schools
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for racial is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is racial a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, racial is tagged as adjective.
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