Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Ethnic.
- adjective Of or relating to ethnology.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
ethnic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare
Ethnic . - adjective Of or relating to
ethnology .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people
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Examples
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Extreme Democrats side leaning in ethnical and geographic conflict lines that have nothing to do with left/right might also explain the strong Democrats leaning despite the small differences on classical social distriubtion issues.
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The people are ground down by taxation; they are extremely poor; there are widespread diseases which are not merely epidemics, which are more or less chronic diseases over a great part of her frontier population, probably the result of contact between different races widely divergent in ethnical character.
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The religion which rests on reverence for that which is above us, we call the ethnical one; it is the religion of nations, and the first happy redemption from a base fear; all so-called heathen religions are of this kind, let them have what names they will.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892
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Just one question: If an employer DOESN'T call the ethnical person in for an interview, whilst calling in the white one, does that actually constitute a race crime?
Army Rumour Service 2009
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There is a word 'ethnical', so 'ethnically' is okay.
Fyling Circus Kirsty 2006
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There is a word 'ethnical', so 'ethnically' is okay.
Archive 2006-09-01 Kirsty 2006
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Today the world is faced with new threats - such as ethnical conflicts (let me recall the situations in Rwanda, Burundi and
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The ethnical cleaning post WWII is no big deal anymore because the displaced Germans are by large dead today, and if not rather well off, which cant be said about Palestina.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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That doesnt make the ethnical cleaning in anyway defensible on some idiotic two wrongs make it right ground as done here by various people.
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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“Racism” is not necessarily racial discrimination, it means ethnical discrimination too.
Global Voices in English » Israel: Reflections on the Holocaust Memorial Day and Durban II 2009
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