ethnic
//ˈɛθ.nɪk//
formalForms
- Comparative
- more ethnic
- Superlative
- most ethnic
- Plural
- ethnics
Definitions
1.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.
- Studies also show that absentee ballots cast by voters who are younger or from racial and ethnic minority groups are rejected at higher rates than other absentee ballots.
2.Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
3.Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
1.The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
- Coinage with the ethnic ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΦΡΑΤΗΝ survives from the mid-second century A.D.
2.An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2492
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English ethnik, from Latin ethnicus ("pagan", "heathen"), from Ancient Greek ἐθνικός (ethnikós, “of or for a nation, heathen”), from ἔθνος (éthnos, “a company", later "a people or nation, heathens”).
By surface analysis, ethno- + -ic.