segregated
Americanadjective
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characterized by or practicing racial segregation.
a segregated school system.
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restricted to one group, especially exclusively on the basis of racial or ethnic membership.
segregated neighborhoods.
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maintaining separate facilities for members of different, especially racially different, groups.
segregated education.
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discriminating against a group, especially on the basis of race.
a segregated economy.
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set apart.
Other Word Forms
- nonsegregated adjective
- segregatedly adverb
- segregatedness noun
Etymology
Origin of segregated
Example Sentences
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“Kin,” set in the segregated South in the 1950s and ’60s, focuses on the crucial importance of mothering, sisterhood and close female friendships in young women’s lives.
A team from Georgetown University is investigating their deaths at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children, a segregated juvenile detention facility in Cheltenham, Maryland, and memorializing them.
From Barron's
As a Black woman who grew up in the segregated South, she transmuted the prejudice her community faced into striking scenes of human connection, many of them sketched from memory and some rendered as linocuts.
From Los Angeles Times
A domestic in stringently segregated Greenville, Tibby brought home books and magazines, such as National Geographic, that her white employers’ children had discarded.
From Los Angeles Times
Since the 2023 violence, the communities have been largely segregated, confined to separate regions, with thousands displaced from their homes.
From BBC
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