mongoloid

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a member of the Mongoloid race
noun a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense)
adjective characteristic of or resembling a Mongol

From Mongol + -oid.

500 A. D. The Mongoloids had come, and were flourishing here. — Astounding Stories, May, 1931, Various
There is undeniably a marked prevalence of what are recognised as Mongoloid traits among these peoples. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
The term INDIAN applies equally to Hindus and Mohammedans and other INHABITANTS of the soil of India (and also through the confusing geographical error of Columbus, to the American Mongoloid aboriginals). — Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahansa Yogananda

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