Ethnic
21ethnic — Relating to sizable social groups sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage. Ethnic was once a term for Egyptian, African, Mesoamerican, and other non Christian ( heathen ) peoples, even… …
22ethnic — adjective 1》 relating to a group of people having a common national or cultural tradition. 2》 denoting origin by birth or descent rather than by present nationality: ethnic Albanians. 3》 characteristic of or belonging to a non Western cultural… …
23ethnic — adj. & n. adj. 1 a (of a social group) having a common national or cultural tradition. b (of clothes etc.) resembling those of a non European exotic people. 2 denoting origin by birth or descent rather than nationality (ethnic Turks). 3 relating… …
24ethnic — 1. adjective /ˈɛθnɪk/ a) Of or related to a group of people having common racial, national, religious or cultural origins. There are many ethnic Indonesians in the Netherlands b) Belonging to a foreign culture …
25ethnic — eth•nic [[t]ˈɛθ nɪk[/t]] adj. 1) ant soc pertaining to or characteristic of a people, esp. a group(eth′nic group′)sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, etc 2) ant soc being a member of an ethnic group, esp. a group that is …
26ethnic — not exclusively of white ancestry Literally, pertaining to nations not Christian or Jewish {OED), from which anyone who is not a Christian or a Jew. As the practice of those religions was largely confined to Europe or those of European… …
27ethnic — adj. Ethnic is used with these nouns: ↑background, ↑balance, ↑category, ↑community, ↑composition, ↑conflict, ↑consciousness, ↑difference, ↑disparity, ↑diversity, ↑divide, ↑ …
28ethnic — Inglish (Indian English) Dictionary a tradition that becomes fashionable (To pierce one s nose is ethnic !) …
29ethnic — [14] Greek éthnos meant ‘nation, people’. However, its use in the Septuagint (the early Greek translation of the Old Testament) to render the Hebrew word for ‘gentile’ led to its derived adjective ethnikós, and hence Latin ethnicus, meaning… …
30ethnic — adjective a wide spectrum of ethnic groups Syn: racial, race related, ethnological; cultural, national, tribal, ancestral, traditional …
