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Definition: Mulatto |
MulattoNoun1. An offspring of a Black and a White parent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Mulatto" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
Etymology: Mulatto \Mu*lat"to\, noun; plural Mulattoes. [from Spanish expression Portuguese mulato, masculine, mulata, feminine, of mixed breed, from mulo mule, from Latin expression mulus. See Mule.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | MULATTO, n. A child of two races, ashamed of both. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | If a mulatto appears to you in a dream, beware of making new friendships or falling into associations with strange women, as you are threatened with loss of money and of high moral standing. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | Mulatto (Spanish). A mule, a mongrel; applied to the male offspring of a negress by a white man. A female offspring is called a "Mulatta." (See Creole .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Mulatto is a term of Spanish origin describing people of mixed racial background. In Hispanic America, the term originally referred to the children of one European and one African parent, but today refers to all people with a significant amount of both European and African ancestry. One criticism of the term is that it ignores the huge amount of racial intermixing in North America in which few people have African ancestry with significant amounts of European ancestry. The feminine form is mulatta.Mulattos officially make up the majority of the population in Dominican Republic and are significant in other Latin American countries, as Brazil, Colombia, Cuba and Venezuela. Many Americans of Hispanic and Latino origin identify themselves as mulatto as well, but the term is rarely used by African Americans. In the United States, people with both African and European ancestry tend to be considered to be black, whereas in Brazil, people with both African and European ancestry tend to be considered white. Such differences in attitude indicate the degree to which race is a social and not scientific classification.
Some people consider the term pejorative, as it derives from the Spanish word for mule (the infertile offspring of a donkey and a horse).
The popular song, "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is about a mulatto woman, and not about a flower.
See also
- Mestizo
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mulatto."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mixture | Half-blood, half-caste. mulatto; terceron, quarteron, quinteron;quadroon, octoroon; griffo, zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee, fustie; griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule; catalo; cross, hybrid, mongrel. |
Unconformity | Nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mulatto |
| English words defined with "Mulatto": Griffe ♦ Mulattoes, Mulattress ♦ Quadroon ♦ Sambo ♦ Zambo. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Mulatto": Negro, Negro Offspring. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mulatto" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Italian (mulatto). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | A mulatto (Smells Like Teen Spirit; performing artist: Nirvana) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mulatto (1949) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Peruvian mulatto. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Mulatto children fishing in the Cane River. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Cuba (09/01) | Ethnic groups: 51% mulatto, 37% white, 11% black, 1% Chinese (according to Cuban census data). (references) |
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| "Mulatto" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mulatto" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mulatto | 109 |
girl mulatto | 6 |
hughes langston mulatto | 5 |
mulatto woman | 5 |
tragic mulatto | 5 |
mulatto porn | 4 |
mulatto by langston hughes | 4 |
mulatto sex | 4 |
mulatto people | 3 |
mulatto photo | 3 |
mulatto pussy | 3 |
mulatto nude | 2 |
mulatto slave | 2 |
mulatto tit | 2 |
dating mulatto woman | 2 |
boy mulatto | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Mulatto"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | mulate, mulat, i bronztë. (various references) | |
Arabic | مولد (created, generated, half breed, half caste, hybrid, mongrel, produced), خلاسي (metis), أسمر ضارب إلى الصفرة (fallow). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | с жълтокафява кожа, мулат (creole). (various references) | |
Chinese | 混血儿 (Mulattoes). (various references) | |
Czech | mulat. (various references) | |
Dutch | mulattin (female mulatto). (various references) | |
Esperanto | mulato, mulatino (female mulatto). (various references) | |
Farsi | زاده اروپاءی وزنگی , دورگه (Cross, Crossbreed, Crossover, Hybrid). (various references) | |
Finnish | mulatti. (various references) | |
French | mulâtre. (various references) | |
German | mulatte. (various references) | |
Greek | μιγάσ (crossbreed, half blood, half breed, half caste, hybrid, mestizo, mongrel), μιγάς (creole, mestizo), μιγάδασ (creole). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mulatt (yellow, yellow man), világosbarna (auburn), sárgásbarna (fawn, russet, russety, tawny), mulatt ember. (various references) | |
Italian | mulatto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コ多糖類 (badger, maker, maker option, meuniere, monsieur, mucopolysaccharide, Mussolini, mustang, mutton, sheep, thick illustrated publication on a single topic printed to look like a magazine), 合いの子 (crossbreed, Eurasian, hybrid). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラート , あいの" (crossbreed, derogatory person of mixed parentage, Eurasian, hybrid). (various references) | |
Korean | 흑백 혼열아 (Mulattoes). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ulattomay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mulato (sambo), mulata. (various references) | |
Romanian | mulatru (mulattos), de mulatru. (various references) | |
Russian | мулат. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mulatski, mulat. (various references) | |
Spanish | mulato (octoroon). (various references) | |
Sranan | malata. (various references) | |
Swedish | mulatt. (various references) | |
Turkish | melez tenli, melez (cross, crossbred, half breed, half caste, halfblood, halfblooded, half-bred, hybrid, mestizo, mixed, mongrel), zenci-beyaz melezi, zenci melezi (quadroon). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що стосу"ться мулатів, мулатка, мулат (yellow), маслиновий (olivaceous). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sạm, người da trắng lai da đen. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Mulatto": mulattoes, mulattos. (additional references) | |
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"Mulatto" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mamatoto, maulatto, mawatte, Melito, mi'laddo, Mohato, molato, Molette, Morlotti, mulat, mulata, mulate, mulato, mulatoe, mulatoo, Mulatov, mulatta, Mulbarton, Muleta, mullato, mullatto, mulotto, multatta, Multatuli, multum, Mupata. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Mulatto" (pronounced mulÄ"tō) |
| 4 | -l Ä" t ō | Lotto. |
| 3 | -Ä" t ō | Dato, motto, vibrato. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-o-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: moult, total. | |
-3 letters: alto, alum, atom, auto, loam, lota, lout, malt, matt, maul, maut, moat, mola, molt, mott, mutt, taut, tola, tolu, tout. | |
-4 letters: alt, amu, att, lam, lat, lot, lum, mat, moa, mol, mot, mut, oat, out, tam, tao, tat, tau, tom, tot, tut, uta. | |
-5 letters: al, am, at, la, lo, ma, mo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-o-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: mulattos. | |
+2 letters: mulattoes, multiatom, mutilator. | |
+3 letters: ethambutol, mutational, mutilation, mutilators, petrolatum, stimulator. | |
+4 letters: antitumoral, automatable, ethambutols, milquetoast, multiauthor, multicoated, multifactor, multination, mutilations, petrolatums, stimulation, stimulators, stimulatory, tetrazolium, tolbutamide, ultrasmooth. | |
+5 letters: automobilist, automobility, malnutrition, maturational, milquetoasts, multimegaton, mutationally, noctambulist, outplacement, stimulations, stratocumuli, tetrazoliums, tolbutamides, ultracompact, ultramontane. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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