Mongoloid

American  

[mong-guh-loid, mon-] / ˈmɒŋ gəˌlɔɪd, ˈmɒn- /

adjective

1. resembling the Mongols.

2. Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) of, relating to, or characteristic of one of the traditional racial divisions of humankind, marked by prominent cheekbones, epicanthic folds about the eyes, and straight black hair, and including the Mongols, Manchus, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Annamese, Siamese, Burmese, Tibetans, and, to some extent, the Inuits and the American Indians.

3. Pathology. Often mongoloid (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) of, affected with, or characteristic of Down syndrome.

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noun

1. Anthropology. (no longer in technical use) a member of the peoples traditionally classified as the Mongoloid race.

2. Pathology. Usually mongoloid (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) a person affected with Down syndrome.

Mongoloid ¹ British  

/ ˈmɒŋɡəˌlɔɪd /

adjective

1. denoting, relating to, or belonging to one of the supposed racial groups of mankind, including most of the peoples of Asia, the Inuit, and the North American Indians

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noun

1. a member of this group

mongoloid ² British  

/ ˈmɒŋɡəˌlɔɪd /

adjective

1. relating to or characterized by Down's syndrome

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noun

1. a person affected by Down's syndrome

Etymology

Origin of Mongoloid

First recorded in 1865–70; Mongol + -oid

Example Sentences

What’s new today is that modern genetic science has revealed just how arbitrary the old race categories — Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid and so on — really are.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2017

The Nepalese identity is an umbrella term for the various Mongoloid and Indo-Aryan groups and castes, like animists, Buddhists and Hindus, bound together by their linguistic identity tied to the Nepali language.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2013

Myers played on classic Devo tracks such as Mongoloid, Jocko Homo and the band's minimalist version of The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction.

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2013

Even then, the territory was an exotic ethnic mix that included Indo-Aryan Assamese, Assamese-speaking Hindus in the Brahmaputra valley, dozens of hill tribes of Mongoloid stock, and indigenous plains tribes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ba-Twa, the, 125, 130 Bavaria, blond type in, 510; Mongoloid traits in, 512 n.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court