Definitions for segregated

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segregated seg·re·gat·ed

Spelling: [seg-ri-gey-tid]

IPA: /ˈsɛg rɪˌgeɪ tɪd/

Segregated is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 433 anagrams from letters in segregated (adeeeggrst).

Definitions for segregated

noun

1. a segregated thing, person, or group.

adjective

1. characterized by or practicing racial segregation:
2. restricted to one group, especially exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership:
3. maintaining separate facilities for members of different, especially racially different, groups:
4. discriminating against a group, especially on the basis of race:
5. set apart.

verb (used with object)

1. to separate or set apart from others or from the main body or group; isolate:
2. to require, by law or custom, the separation of (an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group) from the dominant majority.

verb (used without object)

1. to separate, withdraw, or go apart; separate from the main body and collect in one place; become segregated.
2. to practice, require, or enforce segregation, especially racial segregation.
3. Genetics. (of allelic genes) to separate during meiosis.

Origin of segregated

First recorded in 1645-55; segregate + -ed²

Examples for segregated

After the invasion his family was rounded up and placed in the segregated quarter, crammed into a single room above a grocery.

The city, we are told, is one of the most segregated—by race, class and wealth—in the country.

He is currently being held without bail in a segregated area of Wayne County Correctional Facility away from other inmates.

Then shall the wheat be segregated from the tares, and the sheep divided from the goats.

He is segregated by law in some sections; he is segregated by custom in others.

The segregated vice district was located in the negro locality.

He segregated five maybirds and explained their points to me.

It grows better if it is segregated from the crowded forest.

According to Amnesty International, 40 percent of Roma children there go to segregated schools.

It is all a result of segregated communities where illiteracy is rife and the men think they can get away with anything.