Sekirov Dictionary

ethnic

/ˈɛθ.nɪk/

adjective 4
noun 3
forms 3

adjective4

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Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
- The violence began when Serbian troops went into Croatia ostensibly to aid armed ethnic Serbians trying to create their own autonomous states there. — 2015
•
Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
- I like to eat ethnic food
•
Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
- Indeed, such ethnic music festivals were probably common throughout the country — 2008
(historical) Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.

noun3

An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
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The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
- Coinage with the ethnic ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΦΡΑΤΗΝ survives from the mid-second century A.D. — 2006
•
(no longer used) A heathen, a pagan.
- ..for the learned know that even in St. Jerome's time, the consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics, and about the same time the greatest part of the senate also... — 1611

forms

ethnics · more ethnic · most ethnic

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