"ethnic slur" meaning in English

See ethnic slur in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: ethnic slurs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ethnic slur (plural ethnic slurs)
  1. A remark that refers to members of an ethnic group in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner. Wikipedia link: List of ethnic slurs
    Sense id: en-ethnic_slur-en-noun-cUDeciXE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for ethnic slur meaning in English (0.8kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ethnic slurs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ethnic slur (plural ethnic slurs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A remark that refers to members of an ethnic group in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner."
      ],
      "id": "en-ethnic_slur-en-noun-cUDeciXE",
      "links": [
        [
          "remark",
          "remark"
        ],
        [
          "ethnic group",
          "ethnic group"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "pejorative",
          "pejorative"
        ],
        [
          "insulting",
          "insulting"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "List of ethnic slurs"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ethnic slur"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ethnic slurs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "ethnic slur (plural ethnic slurs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A remark that refers to members of an ethnic group in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "remark",
          "remark"
        ],
        [
          "ethnic group",
          "ethnic group"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "pejorative",
          "pejorative"
        ],
        [
          "insulting",
          "insulting"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "List of ethnic slurs"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ethnic slur"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.