race (2) — OAT

race2

noun

1 the school has pupils of many different races:

ethnic group, racial type, (ethnic) origin.

2 we Scots were a bloodthirsty race then:

people, nation.

3 a new race of novelists had appeared:

group, type, sort, class, kind, variety, ilk, genre, cast, style, brand, vintage, order, breed, species, generation.

4 literary a prince of the race of Solomon:

family, line, lineage, house, dynasty, stock, blood, folk, clan, tribe;

ancestry, descent, bloodline;

progeny, offspring, issue.

word links	race
ethnocide, genocide killing of a race