ethnic
/ˈɛθ.nɪk/ · noun
Meaning
- An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
- An ethnic minority.
- A heathen, a pagan.
- (in classical scholarship) the demonym of an Ancient Greek city
- Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
- Characteristic of a foreign, usually non-Western culture.
- Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
- Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.
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