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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A person of the same ethnicity.

   "Most of the employers and employees in the study were coethnics."

Adjective

1. 1
   Of the same ethnicity. not-comparable

Example

More examples

"Most of the employers and employees in the study were coethnics."

Etymology

From co- + ethnic.

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