master race

English

Etymology

Calque of German Herrenrasse.

Noun

master race (plural master races)

  1. (especially Nazism) A race of people who are superior to others.
    Synonyms: herrenvolk, superrace
    Antonyms: Untermenschen, subhumans
    • 1941 March 22, Konrad Heiden, “Europe Under the “Master Race“”, in The Nation‎, page 334:

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