Ethnic

Quick meaning: Ethnic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.

Meaning

Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.

More Meanings

1. Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
2. Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
3. An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
4. (in classical scholarship) The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
5. (historical) Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.
6. (archaic) A heathen, a pagan.

Example Sentences

I like to eat ethnic food

Indeed, such ethnic music festivals were probably common throughout the country

Once you dig below the surface you discover folk, grassroots, and ethnic music throughout the United States

popular music is usually positioned between classical music on the one hand and folk or ethnic music on the other.

Word Forms

• ethnick
• ethnics

Synonyms for ethnic

Depending on context, synonyms include exotic, pagan, social, cultural, ethnical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cultural, ethnical, social, ethnicity, racial, racially.

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