half-breed
half-breed
Definition
☆ half·-breed (haf′brēd′)
noun
a person whose parents are of different ethnic types; esp., an offspring of a North American Indian and a person of European ancestry
adjective
half-blood
half-breed
Synonyms
half-breed
modif.
half-breed
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- Scotch: The Scotch half-breed slowly retraced his steps to the camp they had left.
Modifies a noun
- child: He was a half-breed child; part Russian, part American and never mind how it had happened.
Browse dictionary entries near half-breed
- half boot
- half blood
- half binding
- half-baked
- half-assed
- half-and-half
- half
- haler
- Haleb
- hale
- half brother
- half-caste
- half-cell
- half cock
- half-cocked
- half crown
- half dollar
- half duplex
- half eagle
- half-evergreen
