master race

noun

1. a people or nation, as the Germans during the Nazi period, whose members consider themselves genetically superior to all others and therefore justified in conquering and ruling them.

master race

noun

1. a race, nation, or group, such as the Germans or Nazis as viewed by Hitler, believed to be superior to other races German nameHerrenvolk

master race

1. The expression used by the Nazis in Germany for the race they wanted to create — a pure race of white people suited to rule the world. Extermination was the Nazis' main tool for making the Germans pure. ( See Holocaust .)

Word History and Origins

Origin of master race¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

The Nazis made the fear of ‘blood pollution’ of their master race and their civilization a foundation of their state.

From Salon

He plans to populate a new planet with a master race of genetically engineered human-critter combos, purging as many innocent, imperfect prototypes along the way as he needs to.

From Los Angeles Times

Calmly, yet forcefully, he argued that the defendants had acted not according to “military necessity, but by that supreme perversion of thought: the Nazi theory of the master race.”

From Washington Post

Ms. Lafrenz, a medical student in Munich, saw the mounting evidence of the Nazi campaign against Jews and anyone else deemed outside of Hitler’s “master race” visions.

From Washington Post

“They’re a concrete master race, there to keep you in your place / And a ganger man to kick you to the ground,” Hendy sings about his people serving an empire that isn’t theirs.

From Washington Post