ethnic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a person who is a member of an ethnic group
  2. adjective denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; - J.F.Kennedy
  3. adjective not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

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.

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