Definitions for octoroon

octoroon oc·to·roon

Spelling: [ok-tuh-roon]
IPA: /ˌɒk təˈrun/

Octoroon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in octoroon (cnoooort).

Definitions for octoroon

noun

  1. a person having one-eighth black ancestry, with one black great-grandparent; the offspring of a quadroon and a white person.

Origin of octoroon

An Americanism dating back to 1855-60; octo- + (quad)roon

Examples for octoroon

The engineer at once relinquished his hold on the octoroon, and stood up.

But once you get into octoroon territory, it holds far less mystique.

Vividly told, with a beautiful octoroon as the central figure.

The octoroon struggled to escape, but the mate and Buck held him tight.

There was the fire in Theatre Royal, after the play of the "octoroon."

"That's just what I thought," replied the octoroon, who had entirely cooled off.

"He was bleeding to death; unless he has care he'll die," said the octoroon woman.

This girl is not the daughter of the octoroon woman, Suzanne.

Nalle is an octoroon; his wife has the same infusion of Caucasian blood.

Until the stranger was close upon the octoroon, I had not seen him.

Word Value for octoroon
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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