human race

Questions about human race

What does human race mean?

human race means "all of the living human inhabitants of the earth".

What is another word for human race?

Close synonyms include world, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is human race a common word?

human race is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.