| African American |
an American who has ancestors of African descent. |
| African-American |
of or having to do with 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 Canadian descent, now usually 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 |
a person of Mexican descent who lives in or is a citizen of the United States. |
| 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] |