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Ethnic
ethnic
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Ethnic means connected with or relating to different racial or cultural groups of people. ...a survey of Britain’s ethnic minorities. ...ethnic tensions. ADJ: usu ADJ n • ethnically ...a predominantly young, ethnically mixed audience. ADV: usu ADV -ed/adj 2. You can use ethnic to describe people who belong to a particular racial or cultural group but who, usually, do not live in the country where most members of that group live. There are still several million ethnic Germans in Russia. ADJ: ADJ n • ethnically ...a large ethnically Albanian population. ADV: ADV adj 3. Ethnic clothing, music, or food is characteristic of the traditions of a particular ethnic group, and different from what is usually found in modern Western culture. ...a magnificent range of ethnic fabrics. ADJ
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin ~us, from Greek ethnikos national, gentile, from ethnos nation, people; akin to Greek ethos custom — more at sib Date: 15th century 1. heathen 2. a. of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background ~ minorities ~ enclaves b. being a member of a specified ~ group an ~ German c. of, relating to, or characteristic of ~s ~ neighborhoods ~ foods II. noun Date: 1941 a member of an ~ group; especially a member of a minority group who retains the customs, language, or social views of the group ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 a (of a social group) having a common national or cultural tradition. b (of clothes etc.) resembling those of a non-European exotic people. 2 denoting origin by birth or descent rather than nationality (ethnic Turks). 3 relating to race or culture (ethnic group; ethnic origins). 4 archaic pagan, heathen. --n. 1 US a member of an (esp. minority) ethnic group. 2 (in pl., usu. treated as sing.) = ETHNOLOGY. Phrases and idioms ethnic minority a (usu. identifiable) group differentiated from the main population of a community by racial origin or cultural background. Derivatives ethnically adv. ethnicity n. Etymology: ME f. eccl.L ethnicus f. Gk ethnikos heathen f. ethnos nation ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. представитель этнической групы 2. представитель национальной группы, обыкновенно национального меньшинства (особенно придерживающийся обычаев своей группы и говорящий на своем языке) 3. пренебр. туземец 4. рел. язычник 5. этнический the changing ethnic composition of the city —- меняющийся этнический состав жителей города 6. национальный ethnic origin —- национальное происхождение 7. туземный ethnic dances —- народные танцы туземцев 8. рел. языческий ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 adj 1 connected with a particular race, nation, or tribe and their customs and traditions (The city's population includes a wide range of different ethnic groups. | ethnic Turks living in Bulgaria | ethnic violence/divisions/unrest (=violence etc between people from different races, tribes etc)) 2 ethnic cooking/fashion/design etc cooking, fashion etc from countries that are a long way from Britain or the US, which seems very different and unusual (the delights of ethnic cooking) 3 ethnic cleansing the action of forcing people to leave their homes because of their racial or national group - ethnically adv ~2 n AmE someone who belongs to a different race from the main group living in a particular country ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1375, from Scottish, "heathen, pagan," and having that sense first in Eng., evidently from Gk. ta ethne, used in Septuagint translation to render Heb. goyim, pl. of goy "nation," especially non-Israelites, Gentile nation. Ta ethne is from Gk. ethnos "a people, nation." Sense of "peculiar to a race or nation" is 1851, return to the word's original meaning; that of "different cultural groups" is 1935; and that of "racial, cultural or national minority group" is Amer.Eng. 1945. Ethnicity is from 1953; ethnic cleansing is from 1991. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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