ethnic

adjective
/ˈɛθ.nɪk/

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

Other meanings

Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
“I like to eat ethnic food”
Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

Synonyms

cultural

Related words

coethnic
ethnicism
ethnicist
ethnicistic
ethnicization
ethnicize
ethnicky
geoethnic
homoethnic
metroethnic
nonethnic
postethnic

Example sentences

“Ethnic religions are common among tribal peoples.”
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Word history

From Ancient Greek "ἐθνικός" (of or for a nation, heathen).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “ethnic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.