segregated
[seg-ri-gey-tid]
- characterized by or practicing racial segregation: a segregated school system.
- restricted to one group, especially exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership: segregated neighborhoods.
- maintaining separate facilities for members of different, especially racially different, groups: segregated education.
- discriminating against a group, especially on the basis of race: a segregated economy.
- set apart.
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Origin of segregated
segregate
[verb seg-ri-geyt; noun seg-ri-git, -geyt]
- to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate: to segregate exceptional children; to segregate hardened criminals.
- to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.
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- to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
- to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
- Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.
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- a segregated thing, person, or group.
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Origin of segregate
1400–50 in sense “segregated”; 1535–45 as transitive v.; late Middle English segregat < Latin sēgregātus (past participle of sēgregāre to part from the flock), equivalent to sē- se- + greg- (stem of grex flock) + -ātus -ate1; see gregarious
Antonyms
1. integrate.
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Examples from the Web for segregated
Contemporary Examples
He is currently being held without bail in a segregated area of Wayne County Correctional Facility away from other inmates.
10-Year-Old Murder Defendant Shows Failure of U.S. Juvenile Justice SystemChristopher Moraff
October 18, 2014
It is all a result of segregated communities where illiteracy is rife and the men think they can get away with anything.
According to Amnesty International, 40 percent of Roma children there go to segregated schools.
The city, we are told, is one of the most segregated—by race, class and wealth—in the country.
After the invasion his family was rounded up and placed in the segregated quarter, crammed into a single room above a grocery.
The Week in Death: Irving Milchberg, the Teenage Gunrunner of the Warsaw GhettoThe Telegraph
March 1, 2014
Historical Examples
The segregated vice district was located in the negro locality.
Negro Migration during the WarEmmett J. Scott
He is segregated by law in some sections; he is segregated by custom in others.
It grows better if it is segregated from the crowded forest.
Dollars and SenseCol. Wm. C. Hunter
Then shall the wheat be segregated from the tares, and the sheep divided from the goats.
Jesus the ChristJames Edward Talmage
He segregated five maybirds and explained their points to me.
segregate
- to set or be set apart from others or from the main group
- (tr) to impose segregation on (a racial or minority group)
- genetics metallurgy to undergo or cause to undergo segregation
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin sēgregāre, from sē- apart + grex a flock
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Word Origin and History for segregated
segregate
v.
1540s, from Latin segregatus, past participle of segregare "set apart, lay aside; isolate; divide," literally "separate from the flock," from *se gregare, from se "apart from" (see secret (n.)) + grege, ablative of grex "herd, flock" (see gregarious). Originally often with reference to the religious notion of separating the flock of the godly from sinners. In modern social context, "to force or enforce racial separation and exclusion," 1908. Related: Segregated; segregating.
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