ethnic

Academic Word List, sublist 4.

About 28.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.
2. adjective Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.

   I like to eat ethnic food

3. adjective Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
4. adjective Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.
5. noun An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
6. noun A heathen, a pagan.
7. noun The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.

Similar words

cultural ethnical social ethnicity racial racially multiethnic multiracial nationality multi-ethnic

Often followed by

groups group and minorities identity minority or background conflict cleansing

Word family

ethnicity ethnics