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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
interracial
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an interracial marriage (=between people of different races)
▪ Interracial marriage is more common than it used to be.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Interracial marriage is more common today.
▪ Interracial marriages are common in England these days.
▪ The danger of an interracial war in South Africa still exists.
▪ There has to be fairness and justice for black people before you can achieve a spirit of interracial harmony.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also patron of health workers, interracial justice, public education, and race relations.
▪ Benson made an ethnographic study of interracial families in Brixton, London.
▪ But I must struggle to understand at least my own tangled emotions about interracial rape.
▪ I wondered what this splashy display of interracial haute couture meant to her.
▪ In retrospect the interracial character of the growing congregation on Azusa Street was indeed a kind of miracle.
▪ It dealt unselfconsciously with interracial relationships.
▪ Tell us what you think about interracial dating, legalizing marijuana, who killed Kennedy.
▪ The push for interracial adoption is redundant and behind the curve.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
interracial

integrated \integrated\ adj.

  1. Formed or united into a whole.

    Syn: incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified.

  2. Formed into a whole or introduced into another entity; as, an integrated Europe. Opposite of nonintegrated. [Narrower terms: coordinated, interconnected, unified; embedded; incorporated; tight-knit, tightly knit]

    a more closely integrated economic and political system
    --Dwight D. Eisenhower

  3. Having different groups treated together as equals in one group; as, racially integrated schools. [Narrower terms: co-ed, coeducational; desegrated, nonsegregated, unsegregated; interracial; mainstreamed] Also See: integrative, joint, united. Antonym: segregated.

  4. Resembling a living organism in organization or development. [Narrower terms: organic (vs. inorganic)]

    Syn: structured.

  5. combined. Opposite of uncombined.

  6. having constituent parts mixed to form a single unit. Opposite of unmixed. [Narrower terms: blended[2]]

    Syn: amalgamated, intermingled, mixed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
interracial

also inter-racial, 1883, from inter- + racial.

Wiktionary
interracial

a. Between or among two or more different races.

WordNet
interracial

  1. adj. between races; "interracial conflict"

  2. involving or composed of different races; "interracial schools"; "a mixed neighborhood" [syn: mixed]

Usage examples of "interracial".

Convoy procedure, and the strategy and tactics to be employed in the all too likely event of enemy action, presented no real problems - but the frequent clashes of personalities, interracial and intraracial - did.

I’ve heard he’s turned into a sort of judge who arbitrates interracial disputes.

But in recent years, misguided do-goodism in the name of civil rights had led to the imposition of an array of new rules and regulations designed to inhibit interracial adoption, and vast government bureaucracies enforced them with mind-numbing exactitude.

We set down on Iniomi without being able to tell the captain how we knew his language, but without convincing him it was a good idea to promote interracial relations.

The Navy strove to extirpate racism from its midst, and mixed marriages were accepted without question, as were interracial liaisons in the Tail.

The Navy strove to extirpate racism from its midst by civilian directive, and mixed marriages were accepted without question, as were interracial liaisons in the Tail.

However, the only people of color in this land are of American Indian ancestry, and interracial unions are quite rare and, I'm afraid, not socially condoned.