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Definition ethnic

Etymology

From French ethnique, from Latin ethnicus ("pagan", "heathen"), from Ancient Greek ??????? (ethnik�s, �of or for a nation, heathen�), from ????? (�thnos, �a company", later "a people or nation, heathens�).

Adjective

ethnic (comparative more ethnic, superlative most ethnic)

1. Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins.
2. Characteristic of a foreign, usually non-Western culture.
3. Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
4. (historical) Heathen, not Judeo-Christian-Muslim.

Noun

ethnic (plural ethnics)

1. An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
2. An ethnic minority. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.
4. (in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city

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