ethnic

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[9] Pettai considers this a new trend in Estonian ethnic relations.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of a sizable group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
  2. adjective Being a member of a particular ethnic group, especially belonging to a national group by heritage or culture but residing outside its national boundaries: ethnic Hungarians living in northern Serbia.
  3. adjective Relating to a people not Christian or Jewish.
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  • [9] Pettai considers this a new trend in Estonian ethnic relations. —  Eurozine articles
  • Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group —  The Guardian World News
  • Since the inception of the Vision Awards in 1995, NAMIC has recognized the achievements of cable networks producing quality, multi-ethnic original programming content. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The comment, I think, reflects the broad and growing gap between the things politicians in the Balkans are spending most of their time on -- ethnic disputes and arguments about ancient history -- and the real concerns of ordinary citizens at a time of worsening economic crisis. —  Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
  • Students come to the Law School from across the United States and abroad, representing a variety of cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
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  1. Middle English, heathen, from Late Latin ethnicus, from Greek ethnikos, from ethnos, people, nation; see s(w)e- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also ethnique; from French ethnique = Spanish etnico = Portuguese ethnico = Italian etnico, from Latin ethnicus, from Greek ἐθνικός, of or for a nation, national, in ecclesiastical writers gentile, heathen, from ἐθνος, a company, later a people, nation; plural, in ecclesiastical use, τα\ ἔθνη, Latin gentes, ‘the nations,’ i. e., the gentiles, the heathen.
 

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