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Ethnic

//ˈɛθ.nɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
"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."
2
Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
"I like to eat ethnic food"
3
Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
"Indeed, such ethnic music festivals were probably common throughout the country"
4
Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. historical

Adjective

1
not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam wordnet
2
denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people wordnet

Noun

1
An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
2
a person who is a member of an ethnic group wordnet
3
A heathen, a pagan. archaic
"..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..."
4
The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
"Coinage with the ethnic ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΦΡΑΤΗΝ survives from the mid-second century A.D."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English ethnik, from Latin ethnicus ("pagan", "heathen"), from Ancient Greek ἐθνικός (ethnikós, “of or for a nation, heathen”), from ἔθνος (éthnos, “a company", later "a people or nation, heathens”).

Etymology 2

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