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ethnicity

  • noun
  • /ɛθˈnɪsɪti/

The common characteristics of a group of people, especially regarding ancestry, culture, language or national experiences.

Other meanings

  1. An ethnic group.

  2. race; common ancestry.

Related words

  • coethnicity
  • metroethnicity
  • multiethnicity
  • neoethnicity
  • panethnicity
  • racenicity
  • socioethnicity
  • subethnicity
  • meta-ethnicity

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