ethnic
IPA: ˈɛθnɪk
noun
- An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
- (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
- (in classical scholarship) The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
adjective
- Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
- Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
- Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
- (historical) Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.
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Examples of "ethnic" in Sentences
- The Fang are the main ethnic group.
- The ethnicity of the editor doesnt count.
- That's the limit of the idea of ethnicity.
- The core of the article is about ethnicity.
- The majority ethnicity in the city is Thai.
- How are the ethnicities of the victims relevant
- In ethnic discussions, the two are incomparable.
- The British are not inbred but ethnically diverse.
- The organization became a case of transnational ethnic nationalism.
- The collaboration of artists transcended the ethnic and sectarian identities.
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