ethnic

Meanings

1. 1
   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

2. 2
   adj

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

   The violence began when Serbian troops went into Croatia ostensibly to aid armed ethnic Serbians trying to create their own autonomous states there.

3. 3
   adj

   Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.

   I like to eat ethnic food

4. 4
   adj

   Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

   Indeed, such ethnic music festivals were probably common throughout the country

5. 5
   noun

   A heathen, a pagan.

   ..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...

6. 6
   noun

   The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.

   Coinage with the ethnic ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΦΡΑΤΗΝ survives from the mid-second century A.D.

7. 7
   adj

   not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

8. 8
   noun

   a person who is a member of an ethnic group

Etymology

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”). By surface analysis, ethno- + -ic.