Usually means: Social construct differentiating human groups.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. race: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. race, race, race: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. race, race: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. race: Collins English Dictionary
  5. race: Vocabulary.com
  6. Race, race: Wordnik
  7. race: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Race, race, race-: Wiktionary
  9. race: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. race: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. race: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. race: Dictionary.com
  13. race (1), race (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. race: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RACE (biology), RACE (container), Race (Mamet play), Race (U.S. Census), Race (U.S. census), Race (US Census), Race (United States Census), Race (album), Race (anthropology), Race (bearing), Race (biology), Race (classification of human beings), Race (classification of humans), Race (disambiguation), Race (fantasy), Race (film), Race (film series), Race (historical definition), Race (historical definitions), Race (human categorisation), Race (human categorization), Race (human classification), Race (movie), Race (play), Race (video game), Race, The Race (Goodies episode), The Race (Seinfeld), The Race (Seinfeld episode), The Race (TV series), The Race (Tay-K song), The Race (The Goodies), The Race (Wiz Khalifa song), The Race (Worldwar), The Race (Yello song), The Race (band), The Race (song), The Race (yachting race), The Race: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Race: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. race: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. race: Rhymezone
  19. race, race (de), race (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. race: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. RACE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. RACE, race: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. race: Free Dictionary
  24. race: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Race: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. race: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Race (contemporary concept), Race (human), race: Legal dictionary
  3. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RACE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Race (contemporary concept), Race (human), Race (sport), Race (sports), race: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Race: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Race (contemporary concept), Race (human), Race (sport), Race (sports), race: Medical dictionary
  4. Race: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. RACE: Acronym Finder
  4. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Population Terms (No longer online)
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. race: Idioms
  8. race: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Race: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. race, race: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Race, race: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Race: Backgammon
  2. Race: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Keno Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Race: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. race: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Race: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A contest between people, animals, vehicles, etc. where the goal is to be the first to reach some objective.
noun:  Swift progress; rapid motion; an instance of moving or driving at high speed.
noun:  (electronics, computing) A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
noun:  A sequence of events; a progressive movement toward a goal.
noun:  A fast-moving current of water.
noun:  A water channel, especially one built to lead water to or from a point where it is utilised, such as that which powers a millwheel.
noun:  A path that something or someone moves along.
noun:  A guide or channel that a component of a machine moves along:
noun:  (sewing, weaving) A groove on a sewing machine or a loom along which the shuttle moves.
noun:  (engineering) A ring with a groove in which rolling elements (such as balls) ride, forming part of a rolling-element bearing (for example, a ball bearing).
noun:  (gambling) A keno gambling session.
verb:  (intransitive) To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest).
verb:  (transitive) To compete against in a race (contest).
verb:  (intransitive) To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed.
verb:  (intransitive, of a motor) To run rapidly when not engaged to a transmission.
noun:  A group of sentient beings, particularly people, distinguished by common ancestry, heritage or characteristics (see Wikipedia's article on historical definitions of race):
noun:  A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
noun:  A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of common physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type.
noun:  A large group of people distinguished from others on the basis of shared characteristics or qualities, for example social qualities.
noun:  (fantasy, science fiction, mythology) A large group of nonhumans distinguished from others on the basis of a common heritage.
noun:  A group of organisms distinguished by common characteristics; often an informal infraspecific rank in taxonomy, below species:
noun:  (biology) A population geographically separated from others of its species that develops significantly different characteristics; a mating group.
noun:  (botany) A strain of plant with characteristics causing it to differ from other plants of the same species.
noun:  (animal husbandry) A breed or strain of domesticated animal.
noun:  (mycology, bacteriology) A strain of microorganism, fungi, etc.
noun:  (by extension) A category or kind of thing distinguished by common characteristics.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (obsolete) Characteristic quality or disposition.
noun:  (obsolete) The sexual activity of conceiving and bearing biological offspring.
noun:  (archaic, uncountable) Ancestry, lineage.
noun:  (obsolete) A step in a lineage or succession; a generation.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Progeny, offspring, descendants.
verb:  To assign a race to; to perceive as having a (usually specified) race.
verb:  (obsolete) To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
noun:  A rhizome or root, especially of ginger.
noun:  A surname.
verb:  Obsolete form of raze. [(transitive) To demolish; to level to the ground.]

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