Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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.

I like to eat ethnic food

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

contemporary artists are victims of the dichotomization of fine art and folk or ethnic art, where the latter must evince standardized techniques of simplicity, naivete, naturalism, and exoticism.

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

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

..for the learned know that even in St. Jerome's time, the consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics, and about the same time the greatest part of the senate also...

Word Forms

• more ethnic
• most ethnic
• ethnick
• ethnics

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When Should You Use Ethnic?

Use ethnic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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