单词 | peoplehood |
释义 | peoplehoodn. A community of people of shared race or nationality; the fact or state of being such a group (often with the implication of associated status or rights); the collective consciousness or awareness of being a people. Also (rare): the fact of being people; humanness. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > [noun] > condition of being peoplehood1879 1879 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 1 Apr. Finally, with bloody hands and pockets bulging with stolen moneys, it fell before the wrath of an indignant and outraged peoplehood. 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1599 People-hood. 1969 V. Ferdinand in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 379 The beautiful black sky of an emerging peoplehood. 1973 Black World Mar. 71 For Gwen Brooks, peoplehood or race is not limited to continental boundaries. 1991 J. Mander In Absence of Sacred iii. xi. 199 European doubts about the peoplehood of Indians extend back to the murderous explorations of Hernando Cortez in the mid 1500s. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1879 |
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