English Dictionary

race

IPA（発音記号）

/ɹeɪs/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 くだけた表現 廃用 古語

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.

日本語の意味

共通の祖先や文化的背景を持つ集団、すなわち「人種」や「民族」を示す。

Historians argue that the modern idea of race emerged from social and political practices rather than from clear biological differences.

歴史家たちは、現代の「人種」という概念は、明確な生物学的差異から生じたのではなく、社会的・政治的慣行から生まれたと主張している。

意味（1）

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare ethnic group). See Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race.

We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them—they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors.

意味（2）

A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.

Race was a significant issue during apartheid in South Africa.

意味（3）

A large group of sentient beings distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage (compare species, subspecies).

A treaty was concluded between the race of elves and the race of men.

意味（4）

A group or category distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.

The advent of the Internet has brought about a new race of entrepreneur.

意味（5）

(biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.

意味（6）

(zoology) Subspecies.

Nevertheless, as our varieties certainly do occasionally revert in some of their characters to ancestral forms, it seems to me not improbable, that if we could succeed in naturalising, or were to cultivate, during many generations, the several races, for instance, of the cabbage, in very poor soil (in which case, however, some effect would have to be attributed to the direct action of the poor soil), that they would to a large extent, or even wholly, revert to the wild aboriginal stock.

意味（7）

(animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.

For do but note a wild and wanton herd, / Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, / Fetching mad bounds.

意味（8）

(mycology, bacteriology, informal) An infraspecific rank, a pathotype, pathovar, etc.

意味（9）

(obsolete) Peculiar flavour, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavour.

But was a race of heaven.

意味（10）

(obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.

And now I give my sensual race the rein.

意味（11）

(archaic, uncountable) Ancestry.

That very estate which the Lyndons now possess in Ireland was once the property of my race.

races （ plural ）