Definition of "race" []

• A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. (noun)
• A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race. (noun)
• A genealogical line; a lineage. (noun)
• Humans considered as a group. (noun)
• Biology An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Howe took a narrow two point USA Crits lead with 20 laps to go in the race, and he held onto the orange and white jersey come the end of the  race."
• "Aryan race to leave behind literary relics of their existence on earth, then I say the Vedic poets are primitive; the Vedic language is primitive; the Vedic religion is primitive, and, taken as a whole, _more primitive than anything else that we are ever likely to recover in the whole history of our race_ ...."
• "It appears that the red race here, the _race capresse_, is particularly liable to the disease."