ethnic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.
  2. A heathen, a pagan. archaic
    — ..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...
  3. The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.
    — Coinage with the ethnic ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΦΡΑΤΗΝ survives from the mid-second century A.D.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.
    — I like to eat ethnic food
  3. Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.
    — Indeed, such ethnic music festivals were probably common throughout the country
  4. Heathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim. historical

词形变化

more ethnic comparative most ethnic superlative ethnick alternative,obsolete ethnics plural ethnick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
antiethnic biethnic coethnic ethnic cleanser ethnic cleansing ethnic gloss ethnic group ethnicism ethnicist ethnicistic ethnicization ethnicize ethnicky ethnic majority ethnic minority ethnic music ethnic purge ethnic studies geoethnic homoethnic interethnic intraethnic meta-ethnic metroethnic monoethnic multiethnic nonethnic pluriethnic polyethnic postethnic proethnic socioethnic subethnic supra-ethnic transethnic
相关词
ethnical ethnically ethnicity ethnocentric ethnocultural ethnography ethnologeny ethnology

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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