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African American an American who has ancestors of African descent.
African-American of or pertaining to Americans who have ancestors of African descent.
Afrikaner a native South African of European descent, esp. one of Dutch ancestry.
Afro-American (old-fashioned) an American who has ancestors of African descent. [1/2 definitions]
ancestry line of descent; lineage. [1/3 definitions]
Anglo a white American not of Hispanic descent.
Anglo-American an American of English birth or descent. [1/2 definitions]
Anglo-Saxon a person of Germanic descent who lived in England before the Norman Conquest, or a descendant thereof. [1/5 definitions]
anticlimax a descent from important or powerful ideas, esp. in speech or writing, to much less significant ones. [2/3 definitions]
Aryan in Nazi doctrine, a Caucasian of non-Jewish, esp. Nordic, descent. [2/4 definitions]
Asian American an American of Asian descent.
Asian-American of or pertaining to Americans of Asian descent or to their history or culture.
bathos a sudden descent from an exalted style or esteemed state to the commonplace. [1/2 definitions]
black (usu. pl. and cap.; in singular, considered offensive) a person who has ancestors of African descent and typically has dark skin, eyes, and hair. [1/13 definitions]
blood common ancestral descent. [1/7 definitions]
Cajun a person of French Acadian descent, now usu. native to Louisiana. [1/2 definitions]
Chicana a woman or girl of Mexican descent who lives in or is a citizen of the United States.
Chicano an American citizen or resident of Mexican descent.
collateral related by descent from a common ancestor, but not in the same line of descent. [1/5 definitions]
colleen a girl or young woman of Irish nationality or descent.
comedown a humiliating decline or descent from a former status. [1/2 definitions]