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PRONUNCIATION OF OCTAROON

octaroon  [ˌɒktəˈruːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OCTAROON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Octaroon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OCTAROON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quadroon

Quadroon, and the associated words quarteron, octoroon and quintroon are terms that, historically, were applied to define the ancestry of people of mixed-race, generally of African and European ancestry in the slave societies of the Americas, but also, within Australia, to those of Aboriginal and European ancestry. The societies incorporated the terms in law and government to define rights and restrictions. The use of such terminology is a characteristic of hypodescent, which is the practice within a society of assigning children of mixed unions to the ethnic group which is perceived by the dominant group as being subordinate. The racial designations refer specifically to the number of full-blooded African ancestors or equivalent, emphasizing the quantitative least, with quadroon signifying that a person has one-quarter black ancestry, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OCTAROON


Cameroon
ˌkæməˈruːn
ceroon
sɪˈruːn
Duntroon
dʌnˈtruːn
Gudrun
ˈɡʊdruːn
Iskenderun
ɪsˈkɛndəˌruːn
Kamerun
ˈkaməruːn
kroon
kruːn
macaroon
ˌmækəˈruːn
maroon
məˈruːn
octoroon
ˌɒktəˈruːn
patroon
pəˈtruːn
picaroon
ˌpɪkəˈruːn
pickaroon
ˌpɪkəˈruːn
prune
pruːn
quarteroon
ˌkwɔːtəˈruːn
rune
ruːn
Scandaroon
ˌskændəˈruːn
strewn
struːn
tenoroon
ˌtɛnəˈruːn
vinegarroon
ˌvɪnɪɡəˈruːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OCTAROON

octant
octantal
Octantis
octapeptide
octapla
octaploid
octaploidy
octapodic
octapody
octarchies
octarchy
octastich
octastichon
octastichous
octastrophic
octastyle
octaval
octavalent
octave
octave coupler

WORDS THAT END LIKE OCTAROON

croon
gadroon
gambroon
godroon
gombroon
heroon
poltroon
quadroon
quintroon
seroon
shagroon
spadroon

Synonyms and antonyms of octaroon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «octaroon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OCTAROON

Find out the translation of octaroon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of octaroon from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «octaroon» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

octaroon
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

octaroon
570 millions of speakers

English

octaroon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

octaroon
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

octaroon
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

octaroon
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

octaroon
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অকটারুন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

octaroon
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Oktan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

octaroon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

octaroon
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

octaroon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Oke
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

octaroon
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

octaroon
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अष्टकोना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

octaroon
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

octaroon
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

octaroon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

octaroon
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

octaroon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

octaroon
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

octaroon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

octaroon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

octaroon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of octaroon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTAROON»

The term «octaroon» is normally little used and occupies the 136.127 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OCTAROON» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «octaroon» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «octaroon» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about octaroon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OCTAROON»

Discover the use of octaroon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to octaroon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Whispered Consolations: Law and Narrative in African ...
Instead, Treadaway argued, he was an octaroon, a person one-eighth colored, and so not covered by the law since an octaroon would not be a negro within the meaning of the statute. Treadaway won his appeal. As Justice Provosty ...
Jon-Christian Suggs, 2009
2
The Past as Prelude: New Orleans, 1718-1968
When we add that the famous octaroon was born near Baton Rouge, we trust you will call on her." "Corine Meyers. The poet has said that there are others, lots of others, but there is only one Corine Meyers. And we do not stretch the point ...
Hodding Carter
3
New Orleans Architecture: Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road
By running the classiest sporting house, Lulu White, an "octaroon from the West Indies," soon won the title of Queen of Storyville. She was located before 1908 at Mahogany Hall, which she had built for $40,000 at 235 N. Basin, recalled in ...
Roulhac Toledano, Mary Louise Christovich, 2003
4
The Chambers Dictionary
octaroon odd octaroon. See octoroon, octastich ... to ... octastyle. See under oct- octave ok'liv, -lav, n a set of eight; the last day of eight beginning with a church festival; the eight days from a festival to its octave; an eighth, or an interval of twelve ...
Allied Chambers, 1998
5
From Sin to Salvation: Stories of Women's Conversions, 1800 ...
Gospel hymns have been close relatives of secular songs. For instance, George Frederick Root's "The Little Octaroon" was later given new words and became the gospel song, "Ring the Bells of Heaven."40 Hymns and gospel songs teach the ...
Virginia Lieson Brereton, 1991
6
Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London
2. White woman and Mestizo husband produce the Quarterona or Quadroon. 3. White woman and male Quadroon produce the Octaroon. 4. White woman and Octaroon produce the Puchuela, and is not to be distinguished from the European.
Anthropological Society of London, 1865
7
The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's ...
... and“octaroon”(one white parent, one quintroon parent); the child of a white man and octaroon woman was considered legally white. In theory at least, the British West Indian racial structure recognized eight races of African-descent people, ...
Delle, 2014
8
Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period
1% See Dion Boucicault, The Octaroon in Six Early American Plays, 1798—2890 , ed. William Coyle and Harvey G. Damaser (Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1968), 178. Undoubtedly, the classic illustration is Dion Boucicault's wildly ...
Margo Hendricks, Patricia Parker, Professor Patricia Parker, 2013
9
Female Subjects in Black and White: Race, Psychoanalysis, ...
H. Mattison, A.M., Louisa Piquet, the Octaroon: A Tale of Southern Slave Life ( 1861), reprinted in Collected Black Women's Narratives, ed. Anthony Barthelemy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988) . For invaluable commentary on the ...
Elizabeth Abel, Barbara Christian, Helene Moglen, 1997
10
Bodies of Law
white and a separate category; Chinese have at times been Indian.8 “Mr. Plessy could not ride in that notorious 'Whites Only' rail car in Louisiana because he was not a White, but rather, a Colored man, an 'Octaroon.' He was, however, an ...
Alan Hyde, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OCTAROON»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term octaroon is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rachel Dolezal's Imitation Game: Why Couldn't She Struggle and Be …
There has always been people of mulatto, quadaroon, octaroon ancestry who could pass for white naturally looking. The twist here is that this ... «The Root, Jun 15»
2
A Liberator, But Never Free
... similar to an age-old American myth in certain white American men's minds about sexual “super-ness” of the United States female octaroon. «The New Republic, May 15»
3
Thirty for America
How come I'm a quadroon when papa was an octaroon?" In one corner, two white men exchange gold for the Louisiana Purchase; in another ... «Arkansas Times, Apr 15»
4
Bebe Neuwirth, Edie Falco, Tituss Burgess, Lea DeLaria, Eden …
Other shows created at the the Orchard Project include this season's OBIE-winningAn Octaroon, TONY®-winning 33 Variations on Broadway, ... «Broadway World, Apr 15»
5
Lena Horne: A Great Lady Who Broke the Color Line
The role went to Lena's good friend, Ava Gardner, who was “blackened up” to appear as an octaroon, a person one eighth black. Ava Gardner ... «San Diego Free Press, Mar 15»
6
Daniel Breaker Goes DOWN AND OUT to Joe's Pub Tonight
Special guests include Amber Renee Gray (An Octaroon, Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812) and Jacob Ming-Trent (Shrek, Hands on ... «Broadway World, Mar 15»
7
Area history, March 22, 2015
... are looking for Stonewall Jackson Bailey, a pompous octaroon or quadroon, who is said to have fired the shot that resulted in Fisher's death. «Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette, Mar 15»
8
Gay Producer Randall Winston on TV Diversity, TBS's Ground Floor …
If everyone hired an octaroon [the dated term for a person who is multi-ethnic] for the purposes of satisfying their diversity needs, that wouldn't ... «Out Magazine, Dec 14»
9
Key and Peele Are TV's Funniest Couple
... talks differently to black people) and kicking it back and forth to the point of hysteria – by the end, Obama's yelling, "Afternoon, my octaroon! «RollingStone.com, Nov 14»
10
The Unicorn's By the Way, Meet Vera Stark rings a belle The …
Both are hoping for a part in The Belle of New Orleans, a Gone With the Wind–like Southern epic about a "beautiful octaroon" hiding her ... «Pitch Weekly, Jun 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Octaroon [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/octaroon>. Oct 2026 ».
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