Meaning of ETHNIC
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- [adj] denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; "influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food"
- [adj] relating to or being a member of an ethnic group; "ethnic frontiers"; "ethnic Chinese in San Francisco"
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\Eth"nic\, Ethnical \Eth"nic*al\, a. [L. ethnicus, Gr. ?,
fr. ? nation, ? ? the nations, heathens, gentiles: cf. F.
ethnique.]
1. Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of
race; ethnological.
2. Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to
Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to {Jewish} and
{Christian}.
\Eth"nic\n.
A heathen; a pagan. [Obs.]
No better reported than impure ethnic and lay dogs.
--Milton.
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